Rebel Power

Many of the world's states are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their attempts to achieve statehood, including the Basques, the Kurds, and the Palestinians. In Rebel Power, Peter Krause offers a powerful new theory to explain this variation.

Peter Krause is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a Research Affiliate in the MIT Security Studies program.

A rare combination of elegant theorizing and rich empirical analysis, which will no doubt influence scholars' and policymakers' thinking for years to come.

Brings together theoretical insights about intermovement dynamics, as well as detailed analyses of four national movements.... This work builds upon several recent contributions in the area of conflict studies.

Empirically rich and logically rigorous, Krause's original approach will attract a lot of attention from scholars of nationalism and insurgency.

Tanisha M. Fazal, University of Notre Dame, author of State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Annexation, and Occupation:

Rebel Power makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of when and why national liberation movements succeed and use violence. Peter Krause offers a theoretically innovative and empirically rich interpretation of the ecology of nationalist civil wars.