Armed groups and the politics of international legitimation / edited by Stephan Hensell, Klaus Schlichte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hensell, Stephan, editor.

Schlichte, Klaus, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legitimacy of governments--History.

Legitimacy of governments.

Militia--History.

Militia.

National liberation movements--History.

National liberation movements.

Non-state actors (International relations)--History.

Non-state actors (International relations).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Non-state armed groups - rebels, guerrillas, militias, liberation movements - not only fight for state power but also for international legitimacy. Why are some armed groups successful in turning the power of the gun into legitimate authority that is internationally recognized while others fail? Contributing to a vibrant scholarly debate, this book a comparative study of armed groups that try to gain international legitimacy. It analyses how and when these attempts are successful. The volume presents a new framework for analysing the politics of legitimation that evolve around armed groups.

Contents:

Fighting for legitimacy: armed groups and the politics of international legitimation / Stephan Hensell and Klaus Schlichte

Decolonization and the Cold War: the superpowers and the anti-colonial insurgencies in Indonesia and Vietnam / Robert J. McMahon

Western Sahara, the Polisario, and the struggle for international legitimacy / Stephan Hensell

The FSLN and the politics of legitimation in the Cold War: Sandinista revolutionaries and transnational activism / Eline van Ommen

Tequila diplomacy: Mexican–FMLN relations in the early Salvadoran Civil War / Andrea Oñate-Madrazo

“When we became stronger, they listened more”: the politics of legitimation of the NRA in Uganda (1981–1986) / Klaus Schlichte

The politics of mutual legitimation: UNITA, lobbyists, and Washington in the Angolan Civil War / Reyko Huang

Between the “Dome of the Rock” and a hard place: Fatah and the trade-off between armed struggle and international legitimacy / Christian Olsson

From government to armed struggle: Hamas’s legitimation politics / Leila Seurat

Recognition on their own terms? The paradox of the Taliban’s quest for international legitimacy / Ahmed Elsayed

The astonishingly easy path to international legitimacy of Khalifa Haftar’s LAAF / Wolfram Lacher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version : Armed groups and the politics of international legitimation.

ISBN:

9780198974529

0198974523

OCLC:

1557407493

Publisher Number:

CIPO000324840

Access Restriction:

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