Send lawyers, guns and money: the politics of militia survival in the Middle East

This dissertation considers the sources of variation in the ability of nonstate military actors to both resist and recover from – in short, to survive – confrontations with much stronger conventional militaries. While much of the existing literature on civil war focuses on structural variables, such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Szekely, Ora
Other Authors: Rex J Brynen (Internal/Cosupervisor2)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2011
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104551