POLSCI 160 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 6 Vocab: Asymmetric Warfare
17 Oct 2017
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Chapter 6: violence by nonstate actors: civil war and terrorism. Civil war: a war in which the main participants are within the same state, such as the government and a rebel group. Separatist: an actor that seeks to create an independent state on territory carved from an existing state. Irredentist: an actor that seeks to detach a region from one country and attack it to another, usually because of shared ethnic or religious ties. Proxy wars: conflicts in which two opposing states fight by supporting opposite sides in war, such as the government and rebels in the third state. Us partakes in this by giving funding to the groups or providing with weapons/training/resources; in this way, we avoid the costs of war. Collective action problems: obstacles to cooperation that occur when actors have incentive to collaborate but each acts in anticipation that other will pay the costs of cooperation. Each actor wants to benefit without paying (free riding)
