Social Cleavages and Armed Group Consolidation: The Case of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces
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In Libya’s fragmented military landscape, Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces stands out as the only armed group that concentrated power over entire regions. The interplay of relative and social cleavages conditioned choices consolidation strategies. As Haftar grew stronger, he progressively moved from cooperative competitive approaches toward coercion. Social wrought by conflict – opposed to seemingly objective boundaries contributed shaping between coercive significance these depended on how violence had shaped local cohesion groups’ links with communities.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1057-610X', '1521-0731']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2021.2013757