This literature review provides an outline of a comparatively young academic discipline,
referred to as Rebel Governance. Individual avenues of research are divided and …

What accounts for overarching trajectories of civil wars? This article develops an account of
civil war as a social process that connects dynamics of conflict from pre-to post-war periods …

Militant organizations and rebel groups are an enduring feature of political life in much of the
world. As scholars pay greater attention to rebel governance strategies, the role of law and …

Recent work in international relations has problematized state-centric assumptions of
governance to explore variations in authority by a range of nonstate actors (eg …

What is the relationship between rebel governance and rebel military strength? Most
existing research assumes that rebel governance enhances the military strength of the rebel …

How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine
them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing …

Insurgent movements have commonly re-located to isolated rural areas with weak state
presence where their security was guaranteed by a hostile environment to launch …

Why do some groups survive government repression while others get eliminated? This
paper offers a corrective to the widely held theory that locally embedded opposition …

Disobedience in military organizations affects critical outcomes such as the quality of civil–
military relations, the likelihood of civilian abuse, and battlefield effectiveness. Existing work …

The complex nature of civil conflict makes it inherently difficult to study, which is exacerbated
by the challenges of conducting field research in volatile conflict zones. How do these …