Armed Groups in Cambodian Civil War [electronic resource] : Territorial Control, Rivalry, and Recruitment /
Kubota, Y.author.
In civil war the causal mechanism on recruitment of combatants is complicated because armed groups interact for context-based strategic. This book argues that a group will adopt varying mobilization strategies depending upon the difference in a group's influence between the stronghold and contested areas, using as examples two Cambodian civil wars.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Theme of This Book; Mobilization of Combatants across Territories of Control; The Concept of Civil War; Mechanisms of Mobilization; Approaches to Civil War Studies; Major Debates; Microlevel Analyses; Empirical Analyses; Case Selection: The Cambodian Civil Wars; Fieldwork and Interview Data; The Structure of This Book; 2 Literature Review: Diversity in Civilians' Incentives and Multiplicity of Recruitment Strategies; Introduction; Collective Action and Sociopolitical Movements in Civil War
Constraints to Participate (Costs of Nonparticipation)Inducements to Participate (Purposive Enlistment); Unanswered Questions; Organization Theories of Recruitment; Theories of Control; Perspective on Participants across Groups and Control; Conclusion; 3 Theory: Territorial Control, Rivalry, and Recruitment; Introduction; Reconsidering Recruitment across Contexts; Competition and Rivalry; The Government; The Rebels; Willingness to Participate in Civil War; Disaggregating Participants; Underlying Assumptions in the Literature; Involuntary and Voluntary Participants; Implications; Conclusion
4 Cambodia, 1970-75Introduction; The Civil War, 1970-75; Civil-Military Relations and Mobilization Strategies; Lon Nol Forces (FANK); The Khmer Rouge and the National United Front of Kampuchea (FUNK); Case Studies in Battambang Province; Historical Background; Northwestern Battambang; Eastern Banan; Western Moung Ruessei; Civil-Military Relations and Mobilization Strategies of Armed Forces; Gaps between the Theory and Empirical Findings; Conclusion; 5 Cambodia, 1979-91; Introduction; The Civil War, 1979-91; Civil-Military Relations and Mobilization Strategies
The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) and VietnamThe Resistance; The Khmer Rouge; The Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF); The National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC); Case Studies in Battambang Province; Historical Background; Battambang City; Eastern Banan; Northwestern Battambang; Western Moung Ruessei; Border Areas; Civil-Military Relations and Mobilization Strategies of Armed Forces; Gaps between the Theory and Empirical Findings; Conclusion; 6 Recruitment in Comparative Perspective; Introduction
Refinement of HypothesesData and Methods; Non-State Actor Data; Dependent Variable; Independent Variables; Control Variables; Analysis; Discussion; Conclusion; 7 Conclusion; Arguments of This Book; Theory and Empirical Findings; Necessity for Refining and Expanding the Theory; Contributions; Future Research Themes; Appendix: Fieldwork in Battambang Province; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In civil war the causal mechanism on recruitment of combatants is complicated because armed groups interact for context-based strategic. This book argues that a group will adopt varying mobilization strategies depending upon the difference in a group's influence between the stronghold and contested areas, using as examples two Cambodian civil wars.
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