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International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict
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Because they are chiefly domestic conflicts, civil wars have been studied primarily from a perspective stressing domestic factors. We ask, instead, whether (and how) the international system shapes civil wars; we find that it does shape the way in which they are fought—their “technology of rebellion.” After disaggregating civil wars into irregular wars (or insurgencies), conventional wars, and symmetric nonconventional wars, we report a striking decline of irregular wars following the end of the Cold War, a remarkable transformation of internal conflict. Our analysis brings the international system back into the study of internal conflict. It specifies the connection between system polarity and the Cold War on the one hand and domestic warfare on the other hand. It also demonstrates that irregular war is not the paradigmatic mode of civil war as widely believed, but rather is closely associated with the structural characteristics of the Cold War.
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- Authors
- KALYVAS, S. N., & BALCELLS, L.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Corresponding author
- KALYVAS, STATHIS N.
- BALCELLS, LAIA
- Venue
- American Political Science Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 415-429
- ISSN
- 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5943
- OpenAlex
- W2125711184
- Cited by
- 858
- References
- 102
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- FWCI
- 87.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- American Political Science Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Military History and Strategy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Keywords
- civil war, international system, end of the Cold War, irregular warfare, insurgency, conventional war, domestic conflict
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