Rebel Governance, Institutions, and Legitimacy

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

How do rebel governance institutions create internal legitimacy while also challenging the legitimacy of state institutions? The research on this panel engages with this question to explore how rebel governance institutions both complement and challenge state institutions particularly around the issue of legitimacy, and to what effect. Using both case specific research and new cross national data, the papers on this panel expand our understanding of the long term impacts of different rebel governance strategies by exploring how these strategies interact with the goals and motivations of the state.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 19: International Security

Individual Presentations

• Legacies of Wartime Order: 'Punishment Attacks' & Social Control in N. Ireland - Christopher Rickard, Mr; Kristin Marie Bakke, University College London

• Transcending Factions: Legitimization Strategies & Crises Outcomes - Marine Gassier

• Rebel Justice During Armed Conflict - Cyanne E. Loyle, Pennsylvania State University

• Rebel Rule to Campaign Tool: The Peacetime Implications of Rebel Governance - Marjorie Breslawski, University of Maryland, College Park

Chair

• Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant

• Reyko Huang Texas A&M University