Social Movements and Civil War: When Protests for by Donatella della Porta,Teije Hidde Donker,Bogumila Hall,Emin

By Donatella della Porta,Teije Hidde Donker,Bogumila Hall,Emin Poljarevic,Daniel P. Ritter

This publication investigates the origins of civil wars which emerge from failed makes an attempt at democratization.


The major target of this quantity is to advance a theoretical rationalization of the stipulations less than which and the mechanisms by which social hobbies’ struggles for democracy turn out in civil warfare. whereas the empirical facts means that this isn't an extraordinary phenomenon, the literatures on social pursuits, democratization and civil wars have grown except one another. on the theoretical point, Social activities and Civil War bridges insights within the 3 fields, taking a look particularly at causes of the radicalization of social hobbies, the failure of democratization techniques and the onset of civil struggle. In doing this, it builds upon the relational process built in contentious politics with the purpose of singling out strong causal mechanisms. on the empirical point, the learn offers in-depth descriptions of 4 instances of trajectory from social events for democratization into civil wars: in Syria, Libya, Yemen and the previous Yugoslavia. stipulations corresponding to the double weak point of civil society and the nation, the presence of marketers of violence in addition to normative and fabric assets for violence, ethnic and tribal divisions, household and foreign army interventions are regarded as influencing the chains of actors’ offerings instead of as structural determinants.


This booklet can be of significant curiosity to scholars of civil wars, political violence, social hobbies, democratization, and IR in general.

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