The Geography of Insurgency: An Urban Network Insurgency Model of the Viet Nam War
Lohman, Andrew Davies
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Description
Title
The Geography of Insurgency: An Urban Network Insurgency Model of the Viet Nam War
Author(s)
Lohman, Andrew Davies
Issue Date
2009
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Flint, Colin
Department of Study
Geography
Discipline
Geography
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Political Science, International Relations
Language
eng
Abstract
This study is a quantitative and spatial analysis of the Viet Nam War and examines the process through which insurgent movements challenge and contest the ruling authority for power within a politically defined territory. Using data collected by the U.S. Department of Defense during the war, this research proposes and tests a theoretical framework which considers an insurgency as a conflict over nodes within the urban network and hypothesizes that we can expect to observe different stages of conflict (types of political activity and violence) in different parts of the urban hierarchy at different times. The hypothesized relationships were generally found to hold true, but this framework revealed distinct variation in conflict patterns at the regional and local scales. The results suggest this framework provides a valuable perspective through which to understand how an insurgency evolves across time and space.
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