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03887aam a2200445 i 4500 001 0B386A14621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 170127s2016 enkab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016047964 020 $a 1316628213 (paperback : alkaline paper) 020 $a 9781316628218 (paperback : alkaline paper) 020 $a 1107176077 (hardback : alkaline paper) 020 $a 9781107176072 (hardback : alkaline paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)959262266 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d LSD $d EYM $d YDX $d IXA $d OCLCF $d GZM $d STF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a DT30.5 R64 2016 100 1 $a Roessler, Philip G., $e author. 245 10 $a Ethnic politics and state power in Africa : $b the logic of the coup-civil war trap / $c Philip Roessler (College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia). 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xxvii, 389 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 520 2 $a "Why are some African countries trapped in vicious cycles of ethnic exclusion and civil war, while others experience relative peace? In this groundbreaking book, Philip Roessler addresses this question. Roessler models Africa's weak, ethnically-divided states as confronting rulers with a coup-civil war trap--sharing power with ethnic rivals is necessary to underwrite societal peace and prevent civil war, but increases rivals' capabilities to seize sovereign power in a coup d'etat. How rulers respond to this strategic trade-off is shown to be a function of their country's ethnic geography and the distribution of threat capabilities it produces. Moving between in-depth case studies of Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo based on years of field work and statistical analyses of powersharing, coups and civil war across sub-Saharan Africa, the book serves as an exemplar of the benefits of mixed methods research for theory-building and testing in comparative politics"--Publisher description. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-378) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. Motivation and central argument -- Part II. Puzzle and theory -- A meso-level approach to the study of civil war -- Theories of ethno-political exclusion -- The strategic logic of war in Africa -- Part III. Theory-building case study -- Political networks, brokerage and cooperative counterinsurgency : civil war averted in Darfur -- The strategic logic of ethno-political exclusion : the breakdown of Sudan's Islamic movement -- Political exclusion and civil war : the outbreak of the Darfur Civil War -- Part IV. Testing the argument -- Empirical analysis of the coup-civil war trap -- A model-testing case : explaining Africa's Great War -- Part V. Extensions -- The strategic logic of peace in Africa -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: A note on the book's qualitative methods -- Appendix 2: Data variable dictionary -- Appendix 3: Data on ethnic transfers of power and ethnicity of coup conspirators and insurgents. 651 0 $a Africa $x Politics and government $y 1960- 651 0 $a Africa $x Political aspects. $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Ethnicity $x Political aspects $z Africa. 650 0 $a Coups d'etat $z Africa. 650 0 $a Civil war $z Africa. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) $z Africa. 651 0 $a Africa $x History, Military $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Africa $x History, Military $y 21st century. 856 41 $z Available to Stanford-affiliated users. $u http://ezproxy.stanford.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316809877 $y Cambridge Core $x cbCR9781316809877 $x purchased $x eLoaderURL $x cb4 $x cbCR9781316809877 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021418.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180502011620.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B386A14621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search