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Comparing Armed Conflicts (Hardcover)
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Comparing Armed Conflicts (Hardcover)
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Comparing armed conflicts primes the production of categories that,
when mobilized, can alter the trajectories of the conflicts.
Considering the political dynamism of spaces of conflict and
intervention, and that practitioners regularly seek out academic
expertise, this book discusses the possibilities and limits of
comparative approaches to understanding armed conflict and
intervention. Capacity-building experts, development workers,
international organizations, and diplomats use their previous
experiences and bring them into new contexts to understand and
respond to their environment. Conflict actors can also make
comparisons to buttress their political position in negotiations,
consolidate their control over fighters, and as calls for
transnational rebel solidarity. The use of such comparisons is an
inherently political move and it has an impact on the production of
scientific knowledge, on conflict dynamics themselves, and on the
formulation and implementation of conflict management policy:
comparison is inherently a practice of order-making. While there
are important epistemological and methodological stakes associated
with researchers engaging in comparison, there are also important
productive effects connected to the research avenues taken. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the Civil Wars.
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