Ideology in Armed Groups

Schubiger, Livia Isabella; Zelina, Matthew

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“… 53. See Thaler (2012), Gutiérrez Sanín and Wood (2014), Schubiger and Zelina (2017), Hoover Green (2018), and Leader Maynard (2019) on armed group ideology in civil wars. …”

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On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria

Schulhofer-Wohl

2020

Rationality and Society

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On-side fighting – outright violence between armed groups aligned on the same side of a civil war’s master cleavage – represents a devastating breakdown in cooperation. Its humanitarian consequences are also grave. But it has been under-recognized empirically and therefore under-theorized by scholars to date. This article remedies the omission. Existing research can be extrapolated to produce candidate explanations, but these overlook spatial and temporal variation in on-side fighting within a war. I provide a theory that accounts for this ebb and flow. On-side fighting hinges on belligerents’ trade-offs between short-term survival and long-term political objectives. Enemy threats to survival underpin on-side cooperation; in their absence, belligerents can pursue political gains against on-side competitors. I evaluate this threat-absence theory using evidence from the ongoing Syrian Civil War’s first years. Fine-grained fatalities data capture fluctuating enemy threats to on-side groups’ survival and situate on-side fighting and its absence. Findings support threat-absence theory and contribute to research on warfighting and political competition in civil wars and to the study of coalition dynamics in other settings, including elections and legislatures.

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“… 53. See Thaler (2012), Gutiérrez Sanín and Wood (2014), Schubiger and Zelina (2017), Hoover Green (2018), and Leader Maynard (2019) on armed group ideology in civil wars. …”

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On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria

Schulhofer-Wohl

2020

Rationality and Society

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“…En los estudios sobre conflictos armados, la ideología ha sido considerada como un concepto importante que se relaciona con los incentivos sociales o económicos para los grupos que intervienen en los contextos en que se producen los conflictos (Kalyvas, 2006;Weinstein, 2007;Kaldor, 2012;Schubiger y Zelina, 2017). En esta línea de investigación, se han publicado trabajos que permiten comprender el rol de la ideología como consecuente al…”

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Ideología y gobernanza rebelde: acercamientos e influencia en grupos guerrilleros y grupos paramilitares

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2020

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El presente artículo busca evidenciar las conexiones existentes entre la ideología de las guerrillas y los grupos paramilitares y los modelos de gobernanza rebelde que estos actores armados han consolidado en territorios asegurados en Colombia. En ese sentido, se hace referencia a los principales conceptos y planteamientos de las perspectivas teóricas existentes para discutirlos y contrastarlos con la realidad. Para ello, se empleó una metodología cualitativa y la revisión documental como herramienta investigativa. Se encontró que la interacción entre ideología y gobernanza rebelde puede ser comprendida a través de: 1. los intereses que ejercen los actores armados sobre el control territorial, 2. los elementos empleados para ejercer dicho control, 3. la legitimidad de la población civil hacia la gobernanza rebelde consolidada y 4. la relación entre actores armados y población civil. Estos hallazgos ofrecen un punto de partida novedoso para profundizar teóricamente sobre el comportamiento de otros grupos armados en realidades distintas a la colombiana.

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“…A broad definition of ideology tells us nothing about the scale of aggregation at which specific ideologies are conceptualized. The common tendency is to focus on familiar 'big isms' such as 'liberalism' or 'Islamist fundamentalism', but these are often overaggregated, since such labels (let alone the broadest ideological categories like 'nationalist', 'left' or 'right') encompass numerous distinct political worldviews (Ahmad, 2016;Gries, 2014: ch.2;Morgan & Wisneski, 2017;Schubiger & Zelina, 2017). 'Big isms' have their place, but their familiarity is no reason to expect that they actually identify the sets of ideas which shape particular conflict behaviors, and they can obscure unconventional, hybrid or contextually specific ideologies (Wood & Thomas, 2017: 33 & 44).…”

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“…Since ideological content changes in translation, this distinction between elite and vernacular ideology is often significant in clarifying the overlaps and differences in the motives and understandings of the leaders, rank-and-file members and broader constituencies of conflict factions (Gutiérrez Sanín & Wood, 2014: 215;Schubiger & Zelina, 2017).…”

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Ideology and armed conflict

Maynard

2019

Journal of Peace Research

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A growing wave of scholarship suggests that ideology has demonstrable effects on various forms of armed conflict. But ideology remains a relative theoretical newcomer in conflict research, and scholars lack developed microfoundations for analyzing ideologies and their effects. Typically, existing research has primarily presented ideology as either an instrumental tool for conflict actors or a source of sincere political and normative commitments. But neither approach captures the diverse ways in which contemporary social science theorizes the causal connection between ideas and action, and both struggle to reconcile the apparently strong effects of ideology on conflict at the collective level with the relative rarity of ‘true believers’ at the individual level. This article addresses such problems by providing key microfoundations for conceptualizing ideologies, analyzing ideological change, and explaining ideologies’ influence over conflict behavior. I emphasize that ideology overlaps with other drivers of conflict such as strategic interests and group identities, show how ideologies can affect conflict behavior through four distinct mechanisms – commitment, adoption, conformity, and instrumentalization – and clarify the role of both conflict pressures and pre-existing ideological conditions in ideological change. These microfoundational claims integrate existing empirical findings and offer a foundation for building deeper explanations and middle-range theories of ideology’s role in armed conflict.

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Ideology in Armed Groups

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On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria

On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria

Ideología y gobernanza rebelde: acercamientos e influencia en grupos guerrilleros y grupos paramilitares

Ideology and armed conflict

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