2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2007.00269.x
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Conflict Specific Capital: The Role of Weapons Acquisition in Civil War

Abstract: This article presents a correspondence between the mode of weapons acquisition by armed opposition groups and the form of a civil war. The mode of arms acquisition is affected by two factorsFavailability and control over the acquisition process. Variations in the mode of arms acquisition correspond to three types of insurgency: led by a single and organized group, warlordism, and disorganized armed bands. This article discusses how weapons acquisition is considered in the existing literature on arms and civil … Show more

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“…The availability of purveyors of violence is high. Especially with the global proliferation of light arms, everyone with a weapon and ambition is a potential warlord (Marsh 2007;Boutwell et al 1995). Yet why do some engage in warlordism while others remain low-level, opportunistic brigands?…”
Section: The Political Economy Of Warlordismmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…The availability of purveyors of violence is high. Especially with the global proliferation of light arms, everyone with a weapon and ambition is a potential warlord (Marsh 2007;Boutwell et al 1995). Yet why do some engage in warlordism while others remain low-level, opportunistic brigands?…”
Section: The Political Economy Of Warlordismmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In this literature armed groups can be seen as tiles of post‐Cold War complex conflict mosaics, where shadow war economies explains various levels of both collusion and collision, and the relevance of the state must be demonstrated rather than assumed (Kaldor 2005). 2 For the researcher who seeks to move the study of war and international relations beyond the horizon where the state is held to be the ultimate cornerstone of theorizing, the first definition from which the exploration can start is that “armed groups” are characterized by the fact that they are “armed” (Marsh 2007:55). There exists surprisingly scant literature on the relationship between weapons and armed groups.…”
Section: Armed Groups and Arms Availabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In setting out on this exploration, some theoretically driven expectations concerning arms availability and contemporary conflicts can be derived from recent empirically grounded research conducted chiefly by Bourne (2007) and Marsh (2007). These contributions fall within the debate on how technology alters the character of war, a debate that is concerned with how material factors interact with social and political, strategic and tactical developments.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Weapons are at least partially subject to the market forces of supply and demand, and there are large regional and temporal variations in the availability of weapons to opposition groups (Killicoat 2007;Marsh 2007;Jackson 2010;Bourne 2012;Hazen 2013). Importantly, there is no support for the idea that ongoing civil wars lead to an increased availability of cheap weapons.…”
Section: Weaponsmentioning
confidence: 99%