When Rebels Win - 9781501784194

When Rebels WinIdeology, Statebuilding, and Power After Civil Wars\nAuthor(s): Kai M. Thaler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501784194, 978-1501784194\nSynopsis\nIn When Rebels Win, Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. \n\nMany assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya, for instance, victorious rebels perpetuated state weaknesses. Yet elsewhere, like in China and Rwanda, they built strong, capable states. \n\nKai M. Thaler argues that, to explain post-victory governance, we must look at rebel group ideologies: the ideas and goals around which a group is formed. Where a group's ideology falls along two key dimensions programmatic versus opportunistic, inclusive versus exclusive influences how it governs. Programmatic-inclusive groups seek to reach across territory and work with populations to implement.