Governing After War
Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 March 2024
- ISBN 9780197696705
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 156x235x23 mm
- Weight 617 g
- Language English 490
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Short description:
Governing after War examines how civilians' and rebels' wartime relations affect post-war state-building, development, and violence. When rebels win the war, how do they govern afterwards? Drawing from multiple cases in Africa, Shelley Liu argues that wartime rebel-civilian ties are important to answer this question. 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Governing after War is a quantum leap forward in scholarship on post-war politics. Liu does a marvelous job analyzing the political tradeoffs and intense threats that post-war states face, and she develops a counterintuitive theory about how rebel victors balance security and development priorities based on wartime ties with civilians. The multi-method data collection in the two main cases of Zimbabwe and Liberia is creative and rigorous, and the empirics are further supported by an original analysis of four other African countries. Anyone interested in post-war peace building, civil war dynamics, rebel governance, and African politics should read this book.
Table of Contents:
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
