Accounting for the Unaccounted
Weak-Actor Social Structure in Asymmetric Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6274763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael G Findley (0000-0002-4830-1828, Brigham Young University), Scott V Edwards (0000-0003-2535-6217, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Scott Edwards (0000-0003-1046-2519) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-606 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00465.x |
| OpenAlex | W2139018559 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 53 |
This paper addresses a puzzle of how conflicts characterized by significant power asymmetries often play out much differently than dominant powers expect. We adapt the notions of institutionalized peace and riot systems from the literature on ethnic violence to identify ways in which social institutions attenuate collective action dilemmas, thereby increasing capability for a less-powerful group. Dominant groups often miscalculate the true nature of capability relationships by failing to account for these group-specific institutions that operate in the face of exogenous threats. We illustrate our model with two episodes of Chechen mobilization in the 1990s
Action (physics · Chechen · Collective action · Criminology · Economics · Ethnic group · Face (sociological concept · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology
Defection Denied
Asymmetric Encounters in Native Canada
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
An Ontology of Peace
The Unavoidable Ghettoization of Security In Iraq
Counterinsurgency as an institution
Rediscovering US Military Strategy
The origins of social institutions
Bargaining and the Interdependent Stages of Civil War Resolution
Power and Civil War Termination Bargaining
How Government Reactions to Violence Worsen Social Welfare
The downstream effects of combatant fragmentation on civil war recurrence
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
ChechnyaLife in a War-Torn Society
Managerial Dilemmas
Overconfidence and War
Russia Confronts Chechnya
Leave none to tell the story
Repertoires and cycles of collective action
Dynamics of Contention
The Geography of Ethnic Violence
Asymmetric Conflicts
States, Parties, and Social Movements
How the Weak Win Wars
The Rebel's Dilemma
Theft of an Idol
The Logic of Collective Action
Power in Movement
Commemorating “The Deportation” in Post-Soviet Chechnya
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Constraints on America's Conduct of Small Wars
Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict
From Old Thinking to New Thinking in Qualitative Research
How the Weak Win Wars
New Weapons for Old Problems
Private Truths, Public Lies
The paradox of revolution
Insurgency, counterinsurgency, and the rational peasant
Chechnya
Russia's Chechen Wars, 1994-2000
Chechnya
Power, Capabilities, and Paradoxical Conflict Outcomes
Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars
Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society
Localized Ethnic Conflict and Genocide
The Search for the "Breaking Point" in Vietnam
Leadership and Collective Action
Learning and foreign policy
Rationalist explanations for war
Patently Misleading
Refugees and the Spread of Civil War
Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study
The Methodology of Necessary Conditions
Conflict among Former Allies after Civil War Settlement
Knowing the Rational Peasant
Breaking the Will of the Enemy During the Vietnam War
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
Social Networks and Collective Action
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |