Second-Generation Liberation Wars

Yaniv Voller is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Kurdish Liberation Movement in Iraq: From Insurgency to Statehood (2014). His articles have appeared in leading journals on international politics and Middle East studies.

• Acknowledgements; Maps; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Practices, Roles, Colonialism and Decolonisation: Rethinking Post-Colonial Separatist Wars; 2. The Historical and Ideational Context of Post-Colonial Liberation Wars; 3. Post-colonial Governments and Counterinsurgency: The Return of Colonial Practices; 4. Second-Generation Liberation Strategies; 5. Transition in Liberation: From Guerrilla Fighting to State-Building; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'Illuminating and beautifully written, this book thoroughly recasts our understanding of how the legacies of armed struggles for liberation from colonial domination shape struggles for self-determination closer to our time. Voller shows how these anti-colonial rebellions created a reservoir of methods, practices and justifications that leaders of separatist movements in Sudan and Iraq embraced in their own campaigns against domination. Second-Generation Liberation Wars shows how the idea of liberation from colonial rule endures among contemporary separatists and shapes their struggles. Ultimately, Voller challenges many conventional understandings of the relationship between international politics, past and present, and armed rebellion.' William Reno, Northwestern University