Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that
have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Why does violence at
a particular point in time increase in intensity and why do actors
in war decrease the level of violence at other points? Duyvesteyn
discusses the potential explanatory variables for escalation and
de-escalation in conflicts involving states and non-state actors,
such as terrorists and insurgents. Using theoretical arguments and
examples from modern history, this book presents the most notable
causal mechanisms or shifts in the shape of propositions that could
explain the rise and decline of non-state actor violence after the
start and before the termination of conflict. This study critically
reflects on the conceptualisation of escalation as linear, rational
and wilful, and instead presents an image of rebel escalation as
accidental, messy and within a very limited range of control.
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