Military success, state capacity and internal war-making in Russia and Turkey.
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Title
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Military success, state capacity and internal war-making in Russia and Turkey.
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Identifier
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AAI3283201
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identifier
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3283201
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Creator
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Balta, Evren.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Susan L. Woodward
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Date
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2007
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, General
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Abstract
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How and by what means are states able to preserve their territorial integrity despite strong challenges from periphereal border regions? In order to answer this question my dissertation focuses on Russia's wars in Chechnya (1994-2002) and Turkey's Kurdish insurgency (1984-1999). The significance of these two cases lies in the fact that both Russia and Turkey faced very strong and long-lasting secessionist threats which did not cause the collapse of central state institutions.;In order to explain not only state persistence but also state failure, this dissertation takes seriously the local dynamics of power and challenges the statist arguments that have emphasized the overall structure of the state bureaucratic apparatus, and in particular the degree of centralization of power at the national level. It argues that focusing on central state capacity captures neither the complexity of these conflicts nor the failure or success of the state to repress them.;Thus, this dissertation seeks to broaden the concept of state capacity within the context of internal wars to include the territorial/spatial power of the state, predicated upon the premise that state capacity of internal war-making has simultaneously local, national, and international dimensions. All three spatial dimensions of state capacity are analyzed as being endogenous to the conflict and thus, are studied by focusing on what state agents specifically choose to do in response to the insurgency. It argues that by insulating the central from the international and the local, the state can persist and even reform itself for greater strength in the course of responding to an internal secessionist challenge.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
