Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation

by Paul Staniland

Book Overview

In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics--bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework--to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed by armed groups drive their responses and interactions.

Staniland combines a unique new dataset of state-group armed orders in India, Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501761110
• ISBN13: 9781501761119
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher