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100	1		_aGHATAK Sambuddha
245			_aThe role of political exclusion and state capacity in civil conflict in South Asia/ _cSambuddha Ghatak
260			_c2018
520			_aExtant literature on intrastate conflict independently explores terrorism and civil war. However, both terrorism and civil war are probably parts of a continuum of intrastate conflict with the former at one end and the latter at the other end in terms of intensity. I argue that two factors play important roles in rebels' decision-making calculus, namely, the size of their support base and state strength. Terrorism, as a strategy of the weak, is optimal when the rebel groups have little support among their audience and the state is strong. On the other hand, guerrilla warfare is an ideal strategy when such groups have a greater support base and the state is weak. The theoretical argument is tested on a dataset of Myanmar and six countries of South Asia and for 1970-2007.
650			_aSOUTHA ASIA _xTERRORISM
650			_aCIVIL WAR
773			_aTerrorism and Political Violence: _gVol. 30, Nos.1-3, January-June 2018, pp.74-96 (116)
598			_a SASIA
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2016.1150840 _zClick here for text
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