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Исследование американского политолога Статиса Каливаса — работа знаковая и крайне ценная: в ней причины и динамика насилия в гражданской войне рассматриваются с беспрецедентной степенью конкретики и детализации не в ущерб убедительности анализа. Вопреки господствующему мнению о том, что такое насилие есть либо результат необузданного безумия, либо способ достижения стратегических целей, автор доказывает, что в рамках гражданских войн имеют место действия на микроуровне, мало соотносимые с общей направленностью конфликта.

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of selective violence: it is jointly produced by political actors seeking information and individual civilians trying to avoid the worst but also grabbing what opportunities their predicament affords them. Violence, he finds, is never a simple reflection of…

By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of selective violence: it is jointly produced by political actors seeking information and individual civilians trying to avoid the worst but also grabbing what opportunities their predicament affords them. Violence, he finds, is never a simple reflection of…