Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare: Causes and Consequences of a Lingering Custom
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F23%3A10464541" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/23:10464541 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387527" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387527</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003387527" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003387527</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare: Causes and Consequences of a Lingering Custom
Original language description
This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare. Despite being a common driver of communal violence, blood revenge has received little attention from scholars. With many civil wars and insurgencies occurring in areas where the custom lingers, strengthening our understanding of blood revenge is essential for discerning how conflicts change and evolve. Drawing upon extensive multidisciplinary evidence, this book is the first in the literature on civil war and insurgency to analyse the impact of blood revenge and its modern remnants on irregular warfare. Even when blood revenge undergoes erosion, its unregulated version still shapes the social fabric of insurgency, although in different ways than its institutionalised counterpart. At times of political instability, the presence of a culture of retaliation weighs heavily on the dynamics of violent mobilisation, target selection, recruitment, and disengagement. This book brings in evidence from dozens of conflicts, providing unprecedented insights into how a better understanding of blood revenge can improve military blueprints for irregular warfare. This book will be of much interest to students of insurgency, terrorism, military and strategic studies, anthropology, and sociology, as well as to decision-makers and irregular warfare professionals.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
B - Specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-14872S" target="_blank" >GA21-14872S: Fratricidal Defection: How Blood Revenge Shapes Anti-Jihadist Mobilisation</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
ISBN
978-1-03-248122-7
Number of pages
116
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS book
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