This dissertation provides an explanatory framework to explain the variations in battle-spaces, alternatively seen as wartime authority configurations across time and space. I place these variations along types of states along their functional dimension, and their respective forms of state power on the ground. I argue that these variations are best understood through the interaction of two structural factors, the nature of state power and social-structure of the area in question on the one hand, and the way combatants develop their infrastructures to harness social power and exercise agency on the other. Varying configurations of these combatant-state interactions shape institutional level outcomes that shape endogenous processes inherent to warzones that explain the variations in battle-spaces or wartime authority configurations. I apply my framework to battle-spaces in Turkey, Nepal, Iraqi-Kurdistan, and Iraq.

Last modified

• 05/06/2019

Creator

• Buddhika Jayamaha

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2V78Q

Subject

• Political Science

Keyword

• Battle-Space
• Nepal
• Kurdistan
• Turkey
• Iraq
• Rebels

Date created

• 2018-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright