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The Role of Networks in Tajikistan's Civil War: Network Activation and Violence Specialists*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

İdil Tunçer Kılavuz
İdil Tunçer Kılavuz*
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Department of Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University, 34722 Göztepe, Istanbul. Email: idiltuncer@marmara.edu.tr
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This article identifies the dynamics which shaped the eruption of civil war in Tajikistan. It argues that the mechanisms of network activation by the elites, together with the establishment of local militias and their involvement in the war through the activation of violence specialists, were important factors in bringing about the eruption of violence. This article is not about the causes of the civil war. Its aim is not to answer the question of why, but the question of how: what mechanisms led Tajikistan into civil war, how networks were activated from the top down, how mobilization was achieved at the micro level in the villages. This article stresses both macro- and micro-level mechanisms, and argues that there is a connection between the two—a look at both is necessary to understand the dynamics of the war.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 37 , Issue 5 , September 2009 , pp. 693 - 717
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Copyright © 2009 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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