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Abstract
This article advances the emergent literature on restraint within militant groups in three ways. First, it offers a framework for situating the “internal brakes on violent escalation” – understood as the practices through which group members shape the outer limits of their action repertoires – in relation to the interplay between conflict dynamics, intra-group processes and individual-level decision making. Second, it develops a basic analytical strategy for examining how such brakes operate at different levels of proximity to potential or actual instances of escalation. Third, it sets out four types of mechanisms through which internal brakes appear to generate or enable restraint.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1960-1983 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Studies in Conflict and Terrorism |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 10 |
Early online date | 18 Jan 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 Oct 2023 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedFunder
Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (ESRC Award: ES/N009614/1)ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Sociology and Political Science
- Safety Research
- Political Science and International Relations
Themes
- Social Movements and Contentious Politics
- Security and Resilience
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The Internal Brakes on Tactical Escalation
Busher, J. (Principal Investigator), Holbrook, D. (Co-Investigator) & Macklin, G. (Co-Investigator)
1/05/17 → 30/04/18
Project: Research