Black Tigers, Bronze Lotus
The Evolution and Dynamics of Sri Lanka's Strategies of Dirty War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12407490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shyam Selvadurai (0000-0003-3975-1357, King's College London), S D Selvadurai, M L R Smith (0000-0001-7530-0997, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 547-572 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1057-610X • E-ISSN: 1521-0731 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1057610x.2013.793617 |
| OpenAlex | W2008235680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Although much has been written on the Sri Lankan state's civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), less has been said about how the conflict's dynamics evolved. How did the parties come to utilize the methods they did? Why did the war become so brutal, characterized by a predisposition toward extreme violence on both sides? Using the typology of “dirty war,” this investigation seeks to address such questions, demonstrating how the strategic choices of the main belligerents shaped the conflict. The analysis shows that while the conflict emerged out of deep-rooted social and ethnic divisions, these factors do not account for how the war came to be defined so comprehensively by the methods of dirty war. It finds that dirty war developed from a sporadic tactic to advance political goals to dominant military practice by a reciprocal process of escalation that eventually internalized dirty war as the accepted mode of strategic communication
Alliance · Art · Diaspora · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Tamil · Terrorism · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |