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Anarchy's anatomy : two-tiered security systems and Libya’s civil wars

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15/04/2020
Author
De Vore, Marc R.
Stähli, Armin
Keywords
Coup proofing
Civil-military relations
Civil war
Libya
Ethnic stacking
JZ International relations
T-NDAS
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
No issue deserves more scrutiny than the mechanisms whereby popular unrest unleashes civil wars. We argue that one institution — two-tiered security systems — is particularly pernicious in terms of the accompanying civil war risk. These systems’ defining characteristic is the juxtaposition of small communally stacked units that protect regimes from internal adversaries with larger regular armed forces that deter external opponents. These systems aggravate civil war risks because stacked security units lack the size to repress widespread dissent, but inhibit rapid regime change through coup d’état. Regular militaries, meanwhile, fracture when ordered to employ force against populations from which they were recruited.
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De Vore , M R & Stähli , A 2020 , ' Anarchy's anatomy : two-tiered security systems and Libya’s civil wars ' , Journal of Strategic Studies , vol. 43 , no. 3 , pp. 392-420 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2018.1479256
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Journal of Strategic Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2018.1479256
ISSN
0140-2390
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2018.1479256
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19293

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