Fighting Over Peace Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strateg

This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace agreements subsequently unravel, ushering in renewed confl

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P OPLOI LT II TC IACLA L V IVOI LOELNE CN EC E FIGHTINGOVER OVERPEACE PEACE FIGHTING Spoilers, Peace Agreements, Spoilers, Peace Agreements, andand Strategic Violence thethe Strategic UseUse of of Violence

Andrew Reiter Andrew G. G. Reiter

Rethinking Political Violence

Series Editor Roger Mac Ginty Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies University of Manchester UK

Aim of the Series This series provides a new space in which to interrogate and challenge much of the conventional wisdom of political violence. International and multidisciplinary in scope, this series explores the causes, types and effects of contemporary violence connecting key debates on terrorism, insurgency, civil war and peace-making. The timely Rethinking Political Violence offers a sustained and refreshing analysis reappraising some of the fundamental questions facing societies in conflict today and understanding attempts to ameliorate the effects of political violence.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14499

Andrew G. Reiter

Fighting Over Peace Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strategic Use of Violence

Andrew G. Reiter Department of Politics Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA

Rethinking Political Violence ISBN 978-3-319-40101-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40102-7

ISBN 978-3-319-40102-7 (eBook)

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To Kathleen, for all of her support

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The idea for this book came about through various seminars while I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It eventually turned into a dissertation project, and Leigh Payne, who chaired th