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The seminar will examine latest theories about the onset and the structure of civil wars, which will be applied to current conflicts in Southeast Asia. For a long time, theories about civil wars remained at the periphery of academic interest. Until the early nineties, most observers regarded civil wars around the globe as mere proxy wars caught in major Cold War competition. However, this changed rapidly when the Cold War came to an end, while most conflicts went on and many even intensified. The big Cold War could no longer serve as an explanation for those so-called small wars. Since 9/11 and parallel to an increase of terrorist activities in Western states, civil wars and their international connections are perceived as a security threat and made it on top of the research agenda. Besides presenting main theoretical debates within civil war research, the seminar also takes a practical approach and connects concepts with recent internal conflicts in Southeast Asia.
Preliminary schedule
- Introduction
- Clashing civilizations
- Ethnicity
- Grievance
- Greed
- New Wars
- Religion
- Micropolitical turn
- Shadows of violence
- Case study I: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), Indonesien
- Case study II: Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Mindanao, Philippinen
- Case study III: Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) und Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO), Thailand
- Case study IV: Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Shan State Army – North (SSA-N), National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA), Myanmar
- Discussion: Securitization and Intervention
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