SOCIOL 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Government Communications Headquarters, Labour Power, Lur
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Large-scale lethal conflicts occur most often in regimes with intermediate and low levels of governmental capacity, including the unstable intermediate cases we have called (cid:862)h(cid:455)(cid:271)rid regi(cid:373)es(cid:863) What is a(cid:374)d what is(cid:374)"t pe(cid:272)ial a(cid:271)out large-scale lethal conflicts. Violence clearly matters as a turning point in contentious politics. American national security agency and the british gchq. Incidents of violence are comparatively rare in patterns of contention that are largely peaceful, if often contentious, in the high-capacity constitutional democracies of north america and. Three features in particular make a difference: the high stakes of claim making, the problem of sustaining armed force, and the problem of what happens to fighters after they are initiated into armed conflict: high stakes: Killing, wounding, and damaging property affect the survival and the continuing conflict of participants well after the immediate struggle has ended. They break up families and communities, destroy available labor power, and eliminate means of production.
