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Rebel Power
Many of the world's states-from Algeria to Ireland to the United
States-are the result of robust national movements that achieved
independence. Many other national movements have failed in their
attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds,
and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power , Peter Krause offers
a powerful new theory to explain this variation focusing on the
internal balance of power among nationalist groups, who cooperate
with each other to establish a new state while simultaneously
competing to lead it. The most powerful groups push to achieve
states while they are in position to rule them, whereas weaker
groups unlikely to gain the spoils of office are likely to become
spoilers, employing risky, escalatory violence to forestall victory
while they improve their position in the movement hierarchy.
Hegemonic movements with one dominant group are therefore more
likely to achieve statehood than internally competitive, fragmented
movements due to their greater pursuit of victory and lesser use of
counterproductive violence. Krause conducted years of fieldwork in
government and nationalist group archives in the Middle East, North
Africa, and Europe, as well as more than 150 interviews with
participants in the Palestinian, Zionist, Algerian, and Irish
national movements. This research generated comparative
longitudinal analyses of these four national movements involving 40
groups in 44 campaigns over a combined 140 years of struggle.
Krause identifies new turning points in the history of these
movements and provides fresh explanations for their use of violent
and nonviolent strategies, as well as their numerous successes and
failures. Rebel Power is essential reading for understanding not
only the history of national movements but also the causes and
consequences of contentious collective action today, from the Arab
Spring to the civil wars and insurgencies in Syria, Afghanistan,
Iraq, and beyond.
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