Alethia Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery, of ECU’s Department of Political Science and the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, are pleased to announce the release of their book, Conflict Dynamics: Civil Wars, Armed Actors, and Their Tactics by University of Georgia Press.
Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as well as the governments and groups involved, by focusing on the context of the relationships involved, the capacities of the conflict’s participants, and the actors’ goals. The authors first present a theoretical framework through which the changeable mix of relative group capacities and the resulting tactical decisions can be examined systematically and as conflicts evolve over time. They then apply that framework to the six case studies to show its usefulness in better understanding conflicts individually and in comparison.
