The Elitism of Armed Rebellion

dc.creator	Huang, Reyko
dc.date.accessioned	2021-09-24T20:02:46Z
dc.date.available	2021-09-24T20:02:46Z
dc.date.issued	2012-09
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/194890
dc.description	The global fame—or ignominy—of rebel leaders is often determined by the degree of violence and upheaval they and their armed organizations generate. Names like Joseph Kony, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Jonas Savimbi are inseparable from the violent political projects of the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Islamic State, and UNITA, which these individuals led, respectively. But are these men representative of rebel leaders as a class of political actors in international politics? Though civil wars are the most common form of warfare today, we have little systematic information on the leaders of rebel organizations. This article reveals a new research tool that helps fill that gap and also describes why the information is important.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 12;Issue 6
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	rebel leaders database	en
dc.subject	rebel biographies	en
dc.subject	Rebel Organization Leaders (ROLE) dataset	en
dc.title	The Elitism of Armed Rebellion	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.sponsor	Bush School of Government and Public Service
local.department	Other	en

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