ABSTRACT
This volume evaluates the state of the art in conflict studies. Original chapters by leading scholars survey theoretical and empirical research on the origins, processes, patterns, and consequences of most forms and contexts of political conflict, protest, repression, and rebellion. Contributors examine key pillars of conflict studies, including civil war, religious conflict, ethnic conflict, transnational conflict, terrorism, revolution, genocide, climate change, and several investigations into the role of the state. The research questions guiding the text include inquiries into the interactions between the rulers and the ruled, authorities and challengers, cooperation and conflict, accommodation and resistance, and the changing context of conflict from the local to the global.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |13 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|11 pages
States and Peoples in Conflict
part I|135 pages
Pillars of Conflict
chapter 5|23 pages
Political Authority
part II|121 pages
Forms of Conflict
chapter 9|15 pages
Terrorism
chapter 13|22 pages
Transnational Conflict
part |20 pages
Conclusion