When Rebels Win

Language: English

Published by Cornell University Press, US, 2025

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In When Rebels Win, Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya, for instance, victorious rebels perpetuated state weaknesses. Yet elsewhere, like in China and Rwanda, they built strong, capable states. Kai M. Thaler argues that, to explain post-victory governance, we must look at rebel group ideologies: the ideas and goals around which a group is formed. Where a group's ideology falls along two key dimensions - programmatic versus opportunistic, inclusive versus exclusive - influences how it governs. Programmatic-inclusive groups seek to reach across territory and work with populations to implement goals, building the state to try to transform society. Opportunistic-exclusive groups, by contrast, prioritize personalized power and private wealth, neglecting statebuilding. With rich evidence from Africa, Latin America, and Asia, When Rebels Win rethinks accounts of rebel behavior and post-war governance emphasizing factors such as resource availability or international intervention. Wartime rebel ideology, Thaler demonstrates, is not just "cheap talk" - and civil war can, counterintuitively, lead to stronger states.…

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Title
When Rebels Win
Author
Kai M. Thaler
Publisher
Cornell University Press, US
Publication year
2025
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
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ISBN 13
9781501784934
Item weight
454 grams

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