Separatist Insurgency: Why Some Insurgents Succeed At Secession
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2013
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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In my thesis, I set out to answer the question of why separatist insurgents succeed in the rare cases that they achieve victory--a topic that has largely not been written about despite the current emphasis on counterinsurgency studies. I created a dataset that demonstrates that secessionists do, in fact, almost never win. My case study focused on recent conflicts in Chechnya. Ultimately I found that the requirement of separatists to hold territory makes it complicated for them to be effective guerrillas, and that more external support is most certainly not better.