Why do people rebel? Grievances and identity
Readings
Book chapters can be found here
Required
- Chapter 1 in Elisabeth J. Wood, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
- Barry R. Posen, “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict,” Survival 35, no. 1 (March 1993): 27–47, doi:10.1080/00396339308442672.
- Chapter 3 in Patrick Cockburn, The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East (Verso Books, 2016).
Cockburn The Age of Jihad. 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.