Governing After War

Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding

Shelley X. Liu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-769670-5 (ISBN)

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Governing After War explores how wartime processes affects post-war state-building efforts when rebels win a civil war and come into power. Post-war governance is a continuation of war--although violence has ceased, the victor must consolidate its control over the state through a process of internal conquest. This means carefully making choices about resource allocation towards development and security. Where does the victor choose to spend, and why? And what are the implications for ultimately consolidating power and preventing conflict recurrence?

The book examines wartime rebel-civilian ties under rebel governance and explains how these ties--along with rebel governing institutions--shape the rebel victors' post-war various resource allocation strategies to establish control at the sub-national level. In turn, successfully balancing resources dedicated toward development and security helps the victor to consolidate power. The book relies on mixed-methods evidence from Zimbabwe and Liberia, combining interviews, focus groups, and archival data with fine-grained census, administrative, survey, and conflict datasets to provide an in-depth examination of subnational variation in wartime rebel behavior and post-war governing strategies. A comparison of Zimbabwe and Liberia alongside four additional civil wars in Burundi, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, and Angola further demonstrates the importance of wartime civilian tie-formation for post-war control. The argument's central insights point to war and peace as part of a long state-building process, and suggest that the international community should pay attention to sub-national political constraints that new governments face. Her findings offer implications for recent rebel victories and, more broadly, for understanding the termination, trajectories, and political legacies of such conflicts around the world.

Shelley Liu is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research examines how citizens relate to the state, and how these citizen-state relationships affect post-conflict development and state-building in developing contexts. Her scholarship has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Politics & Society, and PLOS ONE.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
I Governing After War
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Statebuilding Through Rebel-Civilian Ties
II Resource Allocation
Chapter 3 Introducing the cases
Chapter 4 The Zimbabwe LiberationWar (1972-1979)
Chapter 5 The Liberia CivilWar (1989-1996)
III Consolidating Power
Chapter 6 Divergent Trajectories Across Rebel Victories
Chapter 7 External Comparisons
IV Implications
Chapter 8 Implications and Future Research
Bibliography
Appendix A Security Challenges After War
Appendix B Zimbabwe LiberationWar
Appendix C First Liberia CivilWar

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	235 x 156 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-769670-8 / 0197696708
ISBN-13	978-0-19-769670-5 / 9780197696705
Zustand	Neuware