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Battle for Allegiance: Governments, Terrorist Groups, and Constituencies in Conflict
Seden Akcinaroglu and Efe Tokdemir
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Domestic terrorist groups, like all violent nonstate actors, compete with governments for their monopoly on violence and their legitimacy in representing the citizenry. Battle for Allegiance shows violence is neither the only nor the most effective way in which nonstate actors and governments work to achieve their goals. As much as nonviolent strategies are a rarely considered piece of the puzzle, the role of the audience is another crucial piece often downplayed in the literature. Many studies emphasize the interactions between the government and the terrorist group at the expense of the constituency, but the constituency is the common cluster for both actors to gain legitimacy and to demand its allegiance. In fact, the competition between the two actors goes far beyond who is superior in terms of military force and tactics. The hardest battles are fought over the allegiance of the citizens.
Using a multimethod approach based on exclusive interviews and focus groups from Turkey and large N original data from around the world, Seden Akcinaroglu and Efe Tokdemir present the first systematic empirical analysis of the ways in which terrorist groups, the government, and the citizens relate to each other in a triadic web of action. They study the nonviolent actions of terrorist groups toward their constituencies, the nonviolent actions of governments toward terrorists, and the nonviolent actions of governments toward the terrorist group's constituencies. By investigating the causes, targets, and consequences of accommodative actions, this book sheds light on an important, but generally ignored, aspect of terrorism: interactive nonviolent strategies.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
One. Introduction
Part I. Nonviolent Strategies of Terrorist Groups
Two. The Choice of Terrorist Group Strategies
Three. The Impact of Violent vs. Nonviolent Strategies on the Achievements of Terrorist Groups
Four. Precedents and Consequences of Audience Relations
Five. Empirical Analysis of Audience Relations
Part II. Nonviolent Strategies of Governments in Counterterrorism
Six. Forcing the Government’s Hand
Seven. Empirical Analysis of Government Concessions to Constituency as a Counterterrorism Strategy