Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253618
Rebecca Tapscott, Daniel Rincón Machón
{"title":"Reviews, Otherwise: Introducing the New Reviews Section of Civil Wars","authors":"Rebecca Tapscott, Daniel Rincón Machón","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253618","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The conclusion to this reviews section reflects on the role that reviews play in the sub-discipline of conflict studies, and – from this vantage point – it takes stock of the reviews section in Civil Wars since its inception. We find that the reviews section to date both reflects and to some extent reproduces hierarchies and power dynamics that are well-recognised in the academy. With this in mind, we have set out a proposal for ‘reviews, otherwise’, including several new review types intended to further cultivate critical reflection and engagement while also opening the reviews section to new and different perspectives.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2249321
Juliana Tappe Ortiz
{"title":"100 Years of Solitude Revisited: A Critical Analysis of 25 Years of Scholarship on Colombia’s Civil Conflict","authors":"Juliana Tappe Ortiz","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2249321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2249321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the last 25 years, Colombia has emerged as a highly influential case study in the civil wars literature. This article takes stock of the English-speaking literature on civil conflict in Colombia, discussing the quantity, impact, and challenges of scholarship on Colombia vis-à-vis the wider civil wars field. It shows that work on Colombia has particularly influenced debates on rebel governance and socialisation, civilian victimisation, and local correlates of conflict in broader civil wars studies. The article then highlights challenges in the study of Colombia to date, calling particularly for greater attention to the decentralisation of knowledge production and tackling widening discrepancies between micro- and macro-level data.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2254654
H. Pfeifer, Regine Schwab
{"title":"Re-examining the State/Non-State Binary in the Study of (Civil) War","authors":"H. Pfeifer, Regine Schwab","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2254654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2254654","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT One of the fundamental distinctions informing studies on civil war is that between state and non-state actors as parties to an armed conflict. As we argue, however, this binary has recently come under increased scrutiny in light of real-world developments in armed conflicts. The article builds on newer scholarly contributions that have exposed the porous boundaries between state and non-state actors and orders while demonstrating a striking convergence in their behaviour. Drawing on examples from conflict zones in West Asia and North Africa, we investigate phenomena in civil wars that uncover the tenuity of state/non-state distinction.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2257057
James Worrall, Alex Waterman
{"title":"Understanding Civil Wars: Looking Back to Look Forwards","authors":"James Worrall, Alex Waterman","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2257057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2257057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253617
Rebecca Tapscott, Daniel Rincón Machón
{"title":"25 Years of Civil Wars: Identifying Key Developments Through the Reviews Section","authors":"Rebecca Tapscott, Daniel Rincón Machón","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253617","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This introductory essay to the Reviews Section of Civil Wars 25th Anniversary Special Issue explores key paradigms in the field of conflict studies, and how they have evolved, ranging from new and critical approaches to knowledge production; to conceptualisations of political violence and civil war as dynamic, relational, and potentially order-making and a new demand to centre research ethics in our work. Among other things, this introduction calls on scholars of civil wars to cultivate and maintain spaces for critical dialogue and reflection – not just on methods and findings but also on broader questions of the processes and politics of knowledge production – to ensure the health and advancement of our sub-field.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253046
Matthijs Bogaards
{"title":"Refreshing Our Memory of a Classic: Mansfield and Snyder’s Electing to Fight","authors":"Matthijs Bogaards","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253101
Anisa Abeytia, Esther Brito Ruiz, John Sunday Ojo, Taha Alloosh
{"title":"Do No Harm: The Role of Humanitarian Aid and Neutrality in Protracting Civil Wars","authors":"Anisa Abeytia, Esther Brito Ruiz, John Sunday Ojo, Taha Alloosh","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253101","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We review the impact of humanitarian actors in civil war through the examination of the concepts of neutrality and impartiality – embedded within the ‘do no harm’ principle. We argue that despite the rationale of principles seeking to detach international action from the embodied dynamics of conflict, these governing tenets have effectively served to reinforce power discrepancies between authoritarian regimes, opposition forces, and civilians in civil wars. Because humanitarian practices have so often been co-opted to strengthen the position of authoritarian regimes and inflict harm, we trace their impact in conflict networks and assess whether they serve to further protract and unbalance civil war.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253050
Anastasia Shesterinina
{"title":"Humanising Political Violence: Lee Ann Fujii’s Legacies for Civil War Studies","authors":"Anastasia Shesterinina","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2253050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2253050","url":null,"abstract":"This review highlights Lee Ann Fujii’s legacy of humanising our research on, and understanding of, political violence and her contributions on the social embeddedness of participation in violence, the endogeneity of social categories to violence and embodied and performative dimensions of violence. It argues that civil war scholars should draw on Fujii’s relational approach as an ethical radar for the methods we use as a reality check on our analytical frameworks.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2249721
Giulia Piccolino
{"title":"The Resolution of Civil Wars: Changing International Norms of Peace-Making and the Academic Consensus","authors":"Giulia Piccolino","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2249721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2249721","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the end of the Cold War, the belief that the international community has a responsibility to support negotiated solutions to civil wars has exercised an enduring influence on research and policy making. However, this belief has relatively recent roots. This article looks at how changing international norms have influenced the way academic researchers view civil wars and expect them to end. The lack of interest in solving internal conflicts during the Cold War was matched among academics by a focus on other security issues and a belief that most civil wars could not be negotiated, although a minority of scholars disagreed. After the Cold War, a new international regime for solving civil wars has emerged, with the active support of a large share of the academic community. However, scholars have also criticised the way Western priorities have shaped liberal peace-making attempts and reflected on the assumptions underlying international conflict resolution. Paradoxically, while the academic community has become increasingly optimistic, the post-Cold War approach has fallen into crisis, due to geopolitical transformations and a change in the nature of contemporary insurgencies. At the end of this article, I suggest new avenues for research in the changing international order.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Civil WarsPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2250314
Paul Staniland
{"title":"The Evolution of Civil Wars Research: From Civil War to Political Violence","authors":"Paul Staniland","doi":"10.1080/13698249.2023.2250314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2250314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this reflection I argue that the last 25 years have seen three broad ‘waves’ of work on civil conflict, broadly understood. The first responded to the civil wars and ethnic conflicts of the 1990s, while the second expanded dramatically to take on a variety of questions around violence and organisation in civil wars. The current wave is moving the field towards a broader study of political violence writ large, rather than civil wars per se. I situate the evolution of my own work within this broader trajectory, in particular its engagement with both the second and third waves.","PeriodicalId":51785,"journal":{"name":"Civil Wars","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}