How insurgencies end /

"This study tested conventional wisdom about how insurgencies end against the evidence from 89 insurgencies. It compares a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 89 insurgency case studies with lessons from insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) literature. While no two insurgencies are the...

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Main Author: Connable, Ben
Other Authors: Libicki, Martin C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, ©2010.
©2010
Series:Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-965-MCIA.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Classifying outcomes and selecting cases
  • Assessments of insurgency endings: time and external factors
  • Assessments of insurgency endings: internal factors
  • Assessments of insurgency endings: other factors
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix A: Case studies: methodology
  • Appendix B: Supplemental findings
  • Appendix C: Multivariate regression analysis
  • Appendix D: Insurgencies not examined for this publication
  • Appendix E: Categories used for the spring 2006 survey
  • Appendix F: Unavoidable ambiguities
  • Appendix G: Questions used for the autumn 2006 survey.