TY - BOOK ID - 12011046 TI - Rebels without borders PY - 2009 SN - 9780801447440 0801447445 132298848X 0801457971 0801459214 9780801477546 9780801459214 0801477549 PB - Ithaca Cornell University Press DB - UniCat KW - Civil war. KW - Ethnic conflict. KW - Insurgency. KW - Non-state actors (International relations). KW - Transborder ethnic groups. KW - Transnational sanctuaries (Military science). KW - World politics KW - Non-state actors (International relations) KW - Transnational sanctuaries (Military science) KW - Transborder nationalities KW - Transborder peoples KW - Transborder societies (Ethnic groups) KW - Transnational ethnic groups KW - Conflict, Ethnic KW - Ethnic violence KW - Inter-ethnic conflict KW - Interethnic conflict KW - Cross-border sanctuaries (Military science) KW - Sanctuaries, Transnational (Military science) KW - NGAs (International relations) KW - Non-governmental actors (International relations) KW - Nongovernmental actors (International relations) KW - Non-state entities (International relations) KW - Nonstate entities (International relations) KW - Nonstate actors (International relations) KW - Civil wars KW - Intra-state war KW - Rebellions KW - Insurgent attacks KW - Transborder ethnic groups KW - Ethnic groups KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conflict KW - Guerrilla warfare KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - International relations KW - Government, Resistance to KW - International law KW - Revolutions KW - War KW - Civil war KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Internal security KW - Polemology KW - Insurgency KW - Ethnic conflict KW - World politics - 1989 KW - -Insurgency. KW - -Polemology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12011046 AB - Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposition groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. "Internal" wars often spill across national boundaries, rebel organizations frequently find sanctuaries in neighboring countries, and insurgencies give rise to disputes between states. In Rebels without Borders, which will appeal to students of international and civil war and those developing policies to contain the regional diffusion of conflict, Idean Salehyan examines transnational rebel organizations in civil conflicts, utilizing cross-national datasets as well as in-depth case studies. He shows how external Contra bases in Honduras and Costa Rica facilitated the Nicaraguan civil war and how the Rwandan civil war spilled over into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fostering a regional war. He also looks at other cross-border insurgencies, such as those of the Kurdish PKK and Taliban fighters in Pakistan. Salehyan reveals that external sanctuaries feature in the political history of more than half of the world's armed insurgencies since 1945, and are also important in fostering state-to-state conflicts. Rebels who are unable to challenge the state on its own turf look for mobilization opportunities abroad. Neighboring states that are too weak to prevent rebel access, states that wish to foster instability in their rivals, and large refugee diasporas provide important opportunities for insurgent groups to establish external bases. Such sanctuaries complicate intelligence gathering, counterinsurgency operations, and efforts at peacemaking. States that host rebels intrude into negotiations between governments and opposition movements and can block progress toward peace when they pursue their own agendas. ER -