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In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics—bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political parties in a shared framework—to argue that governments' perception of the ideological threats posed by armed groups drive their responses and interactions. Staniland combines a unique new dataset of state-group armed orders in India, Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar, and Sri Lanka with detailed case studies from the region to explore when and how this model of threat perception provides insight into patterns of repression, collusion, and mutual neglect across nearly seven decades. Instead of straightforwardly responding to the material or organizational power of armed groups, Staniland finds, regimes assess how a group's politics align with their own ideological projects.Explaining, for example, why governments often use extreme repression against weak groups even while working with or tolerating more powerful armed actors, Ordering Violence provides a comprehensive overview of South Asia's complex armed politics, embedded within an analytical framework that can also speak broadly beyond the subcontinent

Sprache: Englisch
Identifikatoren: ISBN: 9781501761133
DOI: 10.1515/9781501761133
Titel-ID: 99371124758706441

Format: 1 online resource (360 p.); 19 charts
Schlagworte: Conflict management / South Asia / Case studies, Conflict management, Insurgency / Government policy, Non-state actors (International relations), Political violence / South Asia / Case studies, Political violence, Asian Studies, Political Science & Political History, Security Studies, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia