Ethnic Mobilization and the Type of State Birth: Why Do Grievances Lead to Violent or Nonviolent Uprisings?

It has been more than five decades since Ted Robert Gurr asked the question, “Why Men Rebel” (1970), in most popular scholarly work of political rebellion and protest. The subsequent research often focused on grievances as main motivation behind collective mobilization (Collier Hoeffler 1998; Fearon Laitin 2003). Yet questions how why lead to group violent or nonviolent conflict onset still attract much attention. Not all groups with engage and/or mobilization. Some do. This is puzzle Manuel Vogt addresses this theoretically novel empirically rich book. He focuses type state birth, i.e. colonial settler decolonized states, backbone several causal paths from ethnic onset.