Jeremy Speight
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Speight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Speight |
| SIGNATURE | SPEIGHT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire
Elite Coalitions and Rebel Control in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
How do armed movements gain civilian compliance and prevent counter-mobilization in localities under their wartime control? This paper argues that rebel capacity to control civilians is contingent on the coalitions formed between rebel mid-level commanders and elite groups embedded in local communities. Rebels are confronted with coalitional choices because local communities are contested and comprised of multiple sets of elite groups. Coalitiona…
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule
How does exposure to rebel rule affect citizens’ political attitudes after armed conflicts end? We combine original survey data from Côte d’Ivoire with a natural experiment based on the arbitrary location of a ceasefire boundary to estimate the effects of exposure to rebel rule by the Forces Nouvelles (FN) on Ivorians’ sense of democratic citizenship. Our findings show that individuals in communities ruled by the FN held more negative attitudes a…
Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War
How do former armed militants exercise local political power after civil wars end? Building on recent advances in the study of "rebel rulers" and local goods provision by armed groups, this article offers a typology of ex-rebel commander authority that emphasizes two dimensions of former militants' power: local-level ties to civilian populations ruled during civil war and national-level ties to post-conflict state elites. Put together, these dime…
Bouna, une « instabilité permanente »
La fragilité de la paix dans la Côte d’Ivoire d’après la crise postélectorale est manifeste dans le nord-est du pays, dans la ville de Bouna et ses campagnes alentours. Depuis 2011, les tensions se sont accrues entre éleveurs peul, agriculteurs lobi et « autochtones » koulango. Fin mars 2016, les luttes pour l’utilisation des terres ont trouvé leur apogée dans un affrontement violent entre membres des communautés lobi et peul à Bouna, qui s’est s…
Pathways from rebellion
Across diverse liberal war-to-peace transitions, the integration of former armed movements into the post-accord political system has been identified as a significant factor in determining the success of peace processes. There is now a growing literature focusing on rebel-to-party transformations in the aftermath of armed conflict. Despite on-going debates over the long-term implications of rebel-to-party conversions for existing party systems, ac…
Making and Unmaking Nations
Scott Straus’s Making and Unmaking Nations is a remarkable contribution to the study of genocide and political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. The questions motivating this book are well
Warlord undone? Strongman politics and post-conflict state-building in Northeastern Côte d'Ivoire (2002–2013)
This article examines the role played by strongmen in Côte d'Ivoire's post-conflict reconstruction. While many acknowledge the unhindered or even the enhanced political influence these actors often enjoy as a result of their relationship to the state in post-conflict contexts, existing debates in Côte d'Ivoire, as well as elsewhere, often remain couched in terms of the implications of these kinds of relationships. Does working with rural strongme…
Rebel Organisation and Local Politics
Scholars have begun to show how variations in the organization of rebellion in war can impact outcomes related to the violence used against civilians, military effectiveness of armed groups and the post-conflict transitions. This article suggests that existing approaches in this literature overlook sub-group variations in relationships between national-level leaders of armed movements and local commanders. Exogenous factors that explain organizat…
Anatomy of Violence
Belachew Gebrewold, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2009, ix +263 pp. Belachew Gebrewold's Anatomy of Violence suggests that monocausal explanations of violent conflict – particularly those th
Youth politics and civil war in West Africa
Youngest Recruits: Pre-War, War & Post-War Experiences in Western Cote d'Ivoire, by Magali Chelpi-den Hamer, Amsterdam, Pallas Publications, University of Amsterdam, 2010, 75 pp. Child Soldiers: Si
Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War
How do former armed militants exercise local political power after civil wars end? Building on recent advances in the study of "rebel rulers" and local goods provision by armed groups, this article offers a typology of ex-rebel commander authority that emphasizes two dimensions of former militants' power: local-level ties to civilian populations ruled during civil war and national-level ties to post-conflict state elites. Put together, these dime…
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule
How does exposure to rebel rule affect citizens’ political attitudes after armed conflicts end? We combine original survey data from Côte d’Ivoire with a natural experiment based on the arbitrary location of a ceasefire boundary to estimate the effects of exposure to rebel rule by the Forces Nouvelles (FN) on Ivorians’ sense of democratic citizenship. Our findings show that individuals in communities ruled by the FN held more negative attitudes a…
Rebel Organisation and Local Politics
Scholars have begun to show how variations in the organization of rebellion in war can impact outcomes related to the violence used against civilians, military effectiveness of armed groups and the post-conflict transitions. This article suggests that existing approaches in this literature overlook sub-group variations in relationships between national-level leaders of armed movements and local commanders. Exogenous factors that explain organizat…
Pathways from rebellion
Across diverse liberal war-to-peace transitions, the integration of former armed movements into the post-accord political system has been identified as a significant factor in determining the success of peace processes. There is now a growing literature focusing on rebel-to-party transformations in the aftermath of armed conflict. Despite on-going debates over the long-term implications of rebel-to-party conversions for existing party systems, ac…
Bouna, une « instabilité permanente »
La fragilité de la paix dans la Côte d’Ivoire d’après la crise postélectorale est manifeste dans le nord-est du pays, dans la ville de Bouna et ses campagnes alentours. Depuis 2011, les tensions se sont accrues entre éleveurs peul, agriculteurs lobi et « autochtones » koulango. Fin mars 2016, les luttes pour l’utilisation des terres ont trouvé leur apogée dans un affrontement violent entre membres des communautés lobi et peul à Bouna, qui s’est s…
Anatomy of Violence
Belachew Gebrewold, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2009, ix +263 pp. Belachew Gebrewold's Anatomy of Violence suggests that monocausal explanations of violent conflict – particularly those th
Youth politics and civil war in West Africa
Youngest Recruits: Pre-War, War & Post-War Experiences in Western Cote d'Ivoire, by Magali Chelpi-den Hamer, Amsterdam, Pallas Publications, University of Amsterdam, 2010, 75 pp. Child Soldiers: Si
Rebel Organisation and Local Politics
Scholars have begun to show how variations in the organization of rebellion in war can impact outcomes related to the violence used against civilians, military effectiveness of armed groups and the post-conflict transitions. This article suggests that existing approaches in this literature overlook sub-group variations in relationships between national-level leaders of armed movements and local commanders. Exogenous factors that explain organizat…
Warlord undone? Strongman politics and post-conflict state-building in Northeastern Côte d'Ivoire (2002–2013)
This article examines the role played by strongmen in Côte d'Ivoire's post-conflict reconstruction. While many acknowledge the unhindered or even the enhanced political influence these actors often enjoy as a result of their relationship to the state in post-conflict contexts, existing debates in Côte d'Ivoire, as well as elsewhere, often remain couched in terms of the implications of these kinds of relationships. Does working with rural strongme…
Bouna, une « instabilité permanente »
La fragilité de la paix dans la Côte d’Ivoire d’après la crise postélectorale est manifeste dans le nord-est du pays, dans la ville de Bouna et ses campagnes alentours. Depuis 2011, les tensions se sont accrues entre éleveurs peul, agriculteurs lobi et « autochtones » koulango. Fin mars 2016, les luttes pour l’utilisation des terres ont trouvé leur apogée dans un affrontement violent entre membres des communautés lobi et peul à Bouna, qui s’est s…
Pathways from rebellion
Across diverse liberal war-to-peace transitions, the integration of former armed movements into the post-accord political system has been identified as a significant factor in determining the success of peace processes. There is now a growing literature focusing on rebel-to-party transformations in the aftermath of armed conflict. Despite on-going debates over the long-term implications of rebel-to-party conversions for existing party systems, ac…
Making and Unmaking Nations
Scott Straus’s Making and Unmaking Nations is a remarkable contribution to the study of genocide and political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. The questions motivating this book are well
Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War
How do former armed militants exercise local political power after civil wars end? Building on recent advances in the study of "rebel rulers" and local goods provision by armed groups, this article offers a typology of ex-rebel commander authority that emphasizes two dimensions of former militants' power: local-level ties to civilian populations ruled during civil war and national-level ties to post-conflict state elites. Put together, these dime…
The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule
How does exposure to rebel rule affect citizens’ political attitudes after armed conflicts end? We combine original survey data from Côte d’Ivoire with a natural experiment based on the arbitrary location of a ceasefire boundary to estimate the effects of exposure to rebel rule by the Forces Nouvelles (FN) on Ivorians’ sense of democratic citizenship. Our findings show that individuals in communities ruled by the FN held more negative attitudes a…
Elite Coalitions and Rebel Control in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
How do armed movements gain civilian compliance and prevent counter-mobilization in localities under their wartime control? This paper argues that rebel capacity to control civilians is contingent on the coalitions formed between rebel mid-level commanders and elite groups embedded in local communities. Rebels are confronted with coalitional choices because local communities are contested and comprised of multiple sets of elite groups. Coalitiona…
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Cote d ivoire (7 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (6 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (5 works)