How wars are fought

Readings

Book chapters can be found here

Required

For Monday:

  •   Chapters 1-3 in (Taber 1965)

    • Robert Taber was a journalist who covered the Cuban Revolution and agitated in favor of the revolution led by Castro, Guevara, and others. As you will see in his writing, he is by no means pretending to be objective about these conflicts, but he has interesting things to say about how these wars are fought and their internal logic.

For Wednesday:

Slides

References

Cohen, Dara Kay. 2013. “Explaining Rape During Civil War: Cross-national Evidence (1980–2009).” American Political Science Review 107 (3): 461–77.
Kalyvas, Stathis. 2006. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Taber, Robert. 1965. The War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare. Potomac Books.
Weinstein, Jeremy M. 2007. Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.