Political rebellion causes, outcomes and alternatives

This volume comprises key essays by Ted Robert Gurr on the causes and consequences of organized political protest and rebellion, its outcomes and strategies for conflict management

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Main Author: Gurr, Ted Robert 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxon, UK Routledge 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Why Men Rebel Project : theories of rebellion, repression, and responses to scarcity
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Psychological factors in political violence
  • War, revolution, and the growth of the coercive state
  • On the political consequences of scarcity and economic decline
  • Part II. The Minorities At Risk Project : patterns, causes and management of ethnopolitical conflict
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Peoples against states : ethnopolitical conflict and the changing world system
  • Minorities, nationalists, and Islamists : explaining communal conflict in the twenty-first century
  • Attaining peace in divided societies : five principles of emerging doctrine
  • Part III. Protest, rebellion, terrorism : outcomes and alternatives
  • Introduction to Part III
  • On the outcomes of violent conflict
  • Self-determination movements and their outcomes
  • Terrorism in democracies : when it occurs, why it fails
  • Nonviolence in ethnopolitics : strategies for the attainment of group rights and autonomy
  • Part IV. Out of Africa
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Explaining political violence and revolution in Africa
  • How Africa's civil wars ended : lessons for prevention?
  • The security challenges of Somalia : toward a confederal solution
  • Why men rebel revisited : observations on revolution in contemporary Africa