Zones of Rebellion: Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State

Aysegul Aydin; Cem Emrence

Published by Cornell University Press 2015

Zones of Rebellion

Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State

Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801456206

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About this book

How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which discourses and policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? This book examines the wide variety of coercive strategies adopted by both insurgents and governments in the long-running Kurdish insurgency in Turkey.

Author / Editor information

Aysegul Aydin is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Colorado. She is the author of Foreign Powers and Intervention in Armed Conflict. Cem Emrence is a historical sociologist. He is the author of Remapping the Ottoman Middle East.

Reviews

Timur Kuran, Duke University, author of The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East:

It is difficult to mobilize a disgruntled group against the state; even harder is to end the ensuing civil war. In no hurry to compromise, the side that is winning squanders opportunities for a peaceful settlement. Zones of Rebellion develops this insight with reference to the clash in Turkey between the state and Kurdish nationalism. Clearly written, extensively documented, and laced with fascinating new findings, it carries valuable lessons for civil wars around the globe.

David Romano, Missouri State University, author of The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization, and Identity:

Zones of Rebellion offers a significant and original contribution to political science. The book's combination of ecology/geography-based theories and institutionalism and the authors’ faithful adherence to employing those approaches throughout is unique. There is an undeniable elegance to such a disciplined, scholarly presentation of material on an extremely complicated topic.

William Armstrong:

Zones of Rebellion is a slim book, but it manages to fit plenty in. It is determinedly wonkish and non-ideological, divided into sections examining the origins and tactics of both the PKK and the Turkish military. It shows how decisions taken in response to particular circumstances set the future direction of the conflict and limited the options of both players. Ultimately, this path dependence led to political stalemate. At critical junctures each side pursued policies that might seem inefficient to an outside observer.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Chronology: Three Phases of the Turkish Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Insurgency
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Part II. Counterinsurgency
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 5
- Other: 3 maps, 5 tables, 2 charts
Keywords: Political science; Turkish states; power and control over territories; strategies in war environments; Turkish-Ottoman history; Kurdish insurgency in Turkey; specturm of violence; civic politics

eBook

Published: August 11, 2015
ISBN: 9780801456206