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Balance of Loyalties: Explaining Rebel Factional Struggles in the Nicaraguan Revolution
Security Studies ( IF 3.032 ) Pub Date : 2019-09-12 , DOI: 10.1080/09636412.2019.1662481
Eric S. Mosinger

Abstract What explains the causes and outcomes of rebel factional struggles? Existing explanations focus on exogenous and material factors that disrupt rebel organizations’ internal processes. Yet rebel groups succumb to infighting and organizational splinters even in the absence of external shocks. In this article I present an endogenous and social theory of rebel factional struggles, in which leadership disputes result from a shifting balance of loyalties within a rebel organization. In my model, rival rebel leaders cultivate the loyalty of two types of networks, recruitment networks and operational networks, which serve as power bases to initiate leadership struggles, launch coups, or split organizations. I build my theory through a case study of Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), which splintered into three factions in 1975–76. Drawing on an original network dataset of FSLN commanders, I trace how the organization’s network structure changed over time, spurring disputes over rank-and-file fighters’ loyalties that tore the FSLN apart.

中文翻译:

忠诚的平衡:解释尼加拉瓜革命中的反叛派系斗争

摘要 如何解释造反派系斗争的起因和结果?现有的解释侧重于扰乱反叛组织内部流程的外生和物质因素。然而,即使在没有外部冲击的情况下,反叛团体也会屈服于内讧和组织分裂。在这篇文章中,我提出了一个关于叛军派系斗争的内生和社会理论,其中领导层纠纷是由叛军组织内部忠诚度的变化平衡引起的。在我的模型中,敌对的反叛领导人培养了两种类型的网络的忠诚度,招聘网络和运营网络,作为发起领导斗争、发动政变或分裂组织的权力基础。我通过对尼加拉瓜的桑地诺民族解放阵线 (FSLN) 的案例研究来构建我的理论,在 1975-76 年间分裂为三个派系。利用 FSLN 指挥官的原始网络数据集,我追踪了该组织的网络结构如何随着时间的推移而发生变化,从而引发了关于普通战士忠诚度的争论,这些争论将 FSLN 撕裂了。
更新日期:2019-09-12
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