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  • 3 - Political Opportunity and Rebel Violence

  • Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book:
    Rebels and Conflict Escalation
    Published online:
    01 July 2021
    Print publication:
    10 June 2021, pp 47-66

  • Summary

    Chapter three focuses on the background and production of political violence based on the idea of the political opportunity structure in rational legalistic and patrimonial political orders. It demonstrates that in many cases mobilisation occurs after the outbreak of violence rather than preceding it. The two vignettes that are used to explain these processes are the rise of the Montoneros in Argentina in the 1970s and the Rebel United Front in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. The causal mechanism that surfaces in this chapter relates to the raising of the saliency of the perceived issues at stake, which constitutes a major form of escalation in armed conflict.