Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- The Logic of Violence in Civil War
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CONCEPTS
- 2 PATHOLOGIES
- 3 BARBARISM
- 4 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR I
- 5 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR II
- 6 A LOGIC OF INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE
- 7 A THEORY OF SELECTIVE VIOLENCE
- 8 EMPIRICS I
- 9 EMPIRICS II
- 10 INTIMACY
- 11 CLEAVAGE AND AGENCY
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Data Sources
- Appendix B Coding Protocols
- Appendix C Timeline of Conflicts
- References
- Index
- Titles in the series
11 - CLEAVAGE AND AGENCY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- The Logic of Violence in Civil War
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CONCEPTS
- 2 PATHOLOGIES
- 3 BARBARISM
- 4 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR I
- 5 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR II
- 6 A LOGIC OF INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE
- 7 A THEORY OF SELECTIVE VIOLENCE
- 8 EMPIRICS I
- 9 EMPIRICS II
- 10 INTIMACY
- 11 CLEAVAGE AND AGENCY
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Data Sources
- Appendix B Coding Protocols
- Appendix C Timeline of Conflicts
- References
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
It's a complicated war.
William Finnegan, A Complicated WarNeither side necessarily acted on principle. It was the old case of tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee – naked rivalry for the spoils of local office. Between factions in some municipalities, a long enmity had existed. It was only to be expected that if the faction in office found itself ranged on the side of collaboration, the faction out of office would loudly condemn its adversary and proclaim its devotion to resistance.
Elmer Lear, The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, Leyte, 1941–1945Up to this point, my focus has been on how armed actors use violence as an instrument of coercion. Although violence aims primarily to deter defection, it also serves additional goals and generates several externalities. In this chapter, I explore an additional dimension of violence: its role as a resource for mobilization at the local level. Examining how actors at the center are linked with action on the ground, and how cleavages as elocuted in national-level discourse are connected with local conflicts that often have little in common with them, brings up some important implications for our general understanding of civil wars.
I begin with an oft-noted but poorly understood puzzle: conflicts and violence “on the ground” often seem more related to local issues rather than the “master cleavage” that drives the civil war at the national level. This is the case despite the fact that local cleavages are usually framed in the discursive terminology of the master cleavage.
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- The Logic of Violence in Civil War , pp. 364 - 387Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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