- Title Information
- Title
- A National Context Framework for Insurgency Movements: The Guerrilla Warfare Context in Guatemala, Argentina, and Nicarague
- Abstract
- What factors affect the outcome of insurgency? Insurgency is typically defined in terms of
an organized resistance movement that uses subversion, sabotage, and armed conflict to achieve
its aims of either overthrowing a government or changing a specific aspect of government.
Traditional explanations of the outcome of insurgency focus on an insurgency’s level of popular
support acquisition, both domestic and international, which consequently leads to higher levels of
resource mobilization, simply defined as the flow of monetary and human resources. I argue that guerrilla
warfare, one of the most commonly used tactics by insurgents, is an important explanatory variable
in understanding the outcome of an insurgency, and more specifically, the way insurgents develop
a guerrilla strategy within their specific national context. Comparing the Ejército Guerrillero de Los
Pobres in Guatemala, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias in Argentina, and the Sandinistas in
Nicaragua, I illustrate how specific guerrilla strategies may succeed or fail depending on the state’s
national context— the people’s willingness to fight, the social and political reality, and the
government’s counterinsurgency capability. I find that history and culture influence the
development of guerrilla strategy and that this strategy only leads to a successful insurgency when
it aligns with the different factors that make up the national context. This conclusion has
implications for both insurgency theory and for counterinsurgency policy.
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Giambertoni, Marzia
- Role
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- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Kinzer, Stephen
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- thesis advisor
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- Name Part
- Rodriguez, Daniel
- Role
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- reader
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Corporate
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- Brown University. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
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- 2022
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- English
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thesis
- Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2022
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- International & Public Affairs
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- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Argentina
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- Topic
- Insurgency
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- Topic
- Nicaragua
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- Topic
- Guerrilla warfare
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- popular support
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- Topic
- Guatemala
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DOI
- 10.26300/kzv0-9442