Why do people rebel? Grievances and identity

Readings

Book chapters can be found here

Required

For Monday:

For Wednesday:

Cockburn (2016) is a journalist who has covered wars in the MENA for years. In this book, he is writing a sort of diary (with some hindsight bias) of his coverage of the US invasion of Iraq.

Slides

Slides here

References

Cockburn, Patrick. 2016. The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East. Verso Books.
Posen, Barry R. 1993. “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict.” Survival 35 (1): 27–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396339308442672.
Wood, Elisabeth J. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. Cambridge University Press.