When Rebels Win (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2025

1501784935 / 9781501784934

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Paperback. 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. "This book develops and tests a theory of how ideology shapes rebels' statebuilding and public service provision efforts if they win civil wars. It compares victorious rebel organizations in Nicaragua, Liberia, and Uganda, and analyzes additional cases from Angola, Algeria, Iran, and Afghanistan"-- Provided by publisher. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
When Rebels Win (Paperback)
Author
Kai M. Thaler
Publisher
Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Publication year
2025
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1501784935
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9781501784934

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