Nascent Insurrections: Why Some Militant Groups Engage in Sustained Armed Conflicts

• In Event: The Anatomy of Insurgency

Brief Overview

Why do some militant groups engage in insurgencies? Using mixed methods, this paper builds and tests a new theory: engagement in sustained armed conflicts is primarily a function of a nascent group's relations with constituent rivals.

Author

• Michael Shkolnik, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) - Carleton University