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dc.contributor.authorParkinson, Sarah E.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-29T15:48:58Z
dc.date.available2023-03-29T15:48:58Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20230329_9781501766305_18
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62032
dc.description.abstractBeyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic research, Sarah E. Parkinson traces shifts in Palestinian militant groups' internal structures and practices during the civil war of 1975 to 1990 and foreign occupations of Lebanon. She shows that most militants approach asymmetrical warfare as a series of challenges centered around information and logistics, characterized by problems such as supplying constantly mobile forces, identifying collaborators, disrupting rival belligerents' operations, and providing essential services like healthcare. Effective negotiation of these challenges contributes to militant organizations' resilience and survival. In this context, the foundation of rebel resilience lies with militants' ability to repurpose their everyday social networks to organizational ends. In the Lebanese setting, Beyond the Lines demonstrates how regionalized differences in Israeli, Syrian, and Lebanese deployment of violence triggered distinct social network responses that led to divergent organizational outcomes for Palestinian militants.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTV Revolutions, uprisings, rebellionsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.otherpalestine liberation organization, israeli occupation of lebanon, palestinian women in war, war camps in lebanon
dc.titleBeyond the Lines
dc.title.alternativeSocial Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407
oapen.relation.isFundedBy1bfe84c3-054a-4b50-be39-0646eda533d0
oapen.relation.isbn9781501766305
oapen.relation.isbn9781501766299
oapen.relation.isbn9781501767142
oapen.relation.isbn9781501766312
oapen.collectionToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
oapen.imprintCornell University Press
oapen.pages270
oapen.place.publicationIthaca
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oapen.grant.programTOME
oapen.grant.projectToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem


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