Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention: assessing three phases of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Terpstra, Niels

doi:10.1080/09592318.2020.1757916

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“…Scholarly accounts are replete with descriptions of how collaboration is the lifeblood of any armed campaign to control territory (e.g., Kalyvas 2006;Petersen 2001). 6 Throughout history and around the world, armed groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in Colombia (Arjona 2016), the Taliban in Afghanistan (Terpstra 2020), the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka (Mampilly 2011), the Bakonozos of Northern Uganda (Kasfir 2005), and the Nazis in occupied territories during the Second World War (Wistrich 2013) have relied heavily on a range of collaborators to capture and hold territory. The spectrum of collaboration in these cases ranged from horrific acts-such as murder, kidnapping, torture, rape, and even genocide-to much less severe transgressions that did not involve violence; civilian collaborators in these cases performed a wide range of nonmilitary functions and services, including tax collection, sanitation, healthcare, education, and supplying or otherwise supporting combatants.…”

Section: Case Selectionmentioning

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Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators

Kao

Revkin

2021

American J Political Sci

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Armed groups seeking to govern territory require the cooperation of many civilians, who are widely perceived as enemy collaborators after conflict ends. The empirical literature on attitudes toward transitional justice focuses heavily on fighters, overlooking more nuanced understandings of proportional justice for civilian collaborators. Through a survey experiment conducted in an Iraqi city that was controlled by the Islamic State, we find that variations in the type of collaboration an actor engages in strongly determine preferences for punishment and forgiveness. While exposure to violence is associated with a greater desire for revenge, perceived volition behind an act—a relatively unstudied factor—is much more important. This research provides unique empirical data on the microfoundations of enemy collaborator culpability. By widening our analytical lens to consider a more realistically broad spectrum of enemy collaboration, we avoid affirming a false dichotomy between victims and perpetrators that is commonly adopted in postwar settings.

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Section: Case Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators

Kao

Revkin

2021

American J Political Sci

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“…Rebel groups may have some amount of legitimacy among a certain constituency despite not having legal standing or international recognition. Even external legitimacy, or how a rebel organization is seen and handled in the international arena, is crucial, especially for separatist movements (Terpstra, 2020). The Taliban's backing for terrorist organizations, notably Al-Qaeda, continues to worry Western observers, posing a regional and international security danger but the Taliban agreed that no terrorist organization would be allowed to use it.…”

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State Responsibility of Afghanistan Under Taliban Regime

Kadir¹,

Nurhaliza

2023

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Serious concerns on the rights of Afghanistan’s women and girls have been raised ever since the Taliban returned to power on 15th August 2021. This paper uses a normative methodology to investigate the discrepancy of legal argument in the international law of succession in terms of status of Taliban within the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) framework. This paper confirmed that the Taliban is the de facto government of Afghanistan as the Taliban have effective and integrated control over a state territory and there is no competing entity with a solid constitutional claim. Therefore, the Taliban is bound by international law to guarantee that women enjoy equal educational rights, including access to school and curriculum. However, the current framework of CEDAW, including the CEDAW committee has not be able to cope with such issues, as it should be reformed in the next future.

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“…In 1996, the trend of international publications regarding the Taliban indicated a steady increase since the Taliban took over the power of the Afghan government and regulated all activities of the Afghan people under strict Islamic sharia law, considered a radical regime. 17 Upon overtaking control of the Afghan government, the Taliban was overthrown by the United States intervention in 2001 after the 9/11 events. Such an event attracted international attention because of the 9/11 bombings by the Al-Qaeda group, which was suspected of having ties to the Taliban group.…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of International Publications Trend on The Taliban

Indraningtyas,

Yumitro

2022

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This research aims to navigate the result of international publication trends regarding the Taliban for 27 years, starting from 1994 to 2021, utilizing a bibliometric analysis study that analyzed trends in international publications based on quantitative data sources obtained through one of the Scopus data search engines. In addition, bibliometric analysis in this study employed a data visualization software VOSviewer to analyze keywords that often appear in research data regarding the trend of international publications of the Taliban. The findings in this bibliometric analysis study indicated three outcomes. Firstly, numerous international publications on the Taliban as a research topic were navigated, accounting for 1,538 publication documents based on the Scopus data search engine with the keyword "Taliban". Secondly, the results of data visualization on VOSviewer show that the largest keywords visualization are Afghanistan and the Taliban. Lastly, the trend of international publications regarding the Taliban indicated that the highest trend of international publications was in 2010-2011 with publication documents are mainly conducted by researchers in western countries, along with the most funding sponsors were the United States and the United Kingdom. This study concluded that the results of international publication trends regarding the Taliban were influenced by the activities executed by the Taliban receiving global attention throughout time. Hence, the novelty of this study lies in the implementation of bibliometric analysis, presenting a dynamic topic about the Taliban and the data search tools used.

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Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention: assessing three phases of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Cited by 26 publications

References 41 publications

Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators

Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators

State Responsibility of Afghanistan Under Taliban Regime

Bibliometric Analysis of International Publications Trend on The Taliban

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