From "Total Liberation" to "Phased Liberation": Temporality and Identity in the Provisional IRA and Hamas

In this thesis, I examine how violent substate actors—specifically those labeled as ‘terrorist’— are able to change from a strategy of total liberation to phased liberation. Using discourse analysis, shifts in political identity are examined in the Provisional IRA and Hamas. Each case study shows th...

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Main Author: Blessing, Jason A.
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23235

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