1st Edition

The Internationalization of Internal Conflicts Threatening the State

Edited By Amy L. Freedman Copyright 2014
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Internal security crises, from environmental disaster, extreme poverty and deprivation, armed conflicts, or ethnic or religious conflict, provide sites of opportunity for those seeking to internationalize conflicts. Domestic conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia have started as internal problems, but have taken on regional and international dimensions as parties to the conflict... Read more

1: Explaining the Internationalization of Insurgencies Amy L. Freedman and Sarah Davies Murray  2: Theories, Tools, and Lenses Amy L. Freedman and Sarah Davies Murray  3: The Nexus of the Domestic and Regional within an International Context: The Rwandan Genocide and Mobutu’s Ouster John James Quinn  4: Foreign Brokered Pacts and Communal Hostility in Lebanon Samir Khalaf  5: Iraq’s Insurgencies in Comparative Perspective Glenn E. Robinson  6: (No) Helping Hands: External Factors Affecting the Conclusion of the Civil Wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone Freida Ibiduni M'Cormack  7: Revisiting the Bangsamoro Struggle: Contested Identities and Elusive Peace Mely Caballero-Anthony  8: Transforming the Aceh Conflict: From Military Solutions to Political Agreement Kirsten E. Schulze  9: Thailand’s Strange Southern War: Insurgency, Disorder and the Fragile State Marc Askew  10: Conclusion: Explaining Peace Amy L. Freedman

Biography

Amy Freedman is an associate professor and chair of political science/international studies at Long Island University. She is the author of Political Change and Consolidation: Democracy's Rocky Road in Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea and Malaysia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and has written numerous journal articles on political economy questions, minority politics, and questions about political Islam. Her work appears in the Journal of Civil Society, Religion and Politics, World Affairs, and elsewhere.