Parochialism as a central challenge in counterinsurgency

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6083, 2012, Pages 805-808

  Sambanis, Nicholas ^a   Schulhofer Wohl, Jonah ^b   Shayo, Moses ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CONFLICT; GROUP BEHAVIOR; POLITICAL CONFLICT; STABILIZATION;

AFGHANISTAN; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARMY; CONFLICT; HUMAN; IRAQ; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WAR; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; CROWDING; GROUP PROCESS; MILITARY PHENOMENA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOLDIER;

AFGHANISTAN;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MASS BEHAVIOR; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MILITARY SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 84861212951     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1222304     Document Type: Review

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