… This chapter first gives a brief overview of previous research on rebel recruitment. It then
turns to Nepal and a discussion of the structural factors commonly cited in explaining the growth …

… literature on rebel recruitment to highlight the important role that recruitment processes
play in scholarship on civil wars. I identify empirical gaps in the study of recruitment processes …

… While previous research on rebel recruitment has tended to treat a group's recruitment
strategy as static, I propose that groups are likely to shift recruitment strategies depending on the …

… show that the more losses rebels suffer on the battlefield, the … as a recruitment strategy was
more important to rebel leaders … the rebel group’s recruitment strategy, and that these rebel …

… Next, we introduce our theory of rebel recruitment. Implications of our theory are quantitatively
tested using data on forced recruitment in conflict from Cohen (Citation2013, Citation2016) …

… the character and conduct of rebel groups. This article identifies a rebel “resource curse” …
While the presence of economic endowments makes it possible for leaders to recruit on the …

… For a rebel group engaged in armed conflict with the state, recruitment and retention of …
develop a formal model of recruitment and retention in a rebel group with and without contestation…

… Exactly how do terrorist recruiters find and … of recruits, but little about the strategies and
tactics of recruiters. In this article, I examine rebel recruitment from the perspective of the recruiter. …

… By solving the puzzle of how rebel groups that rely on forced recruitment retain their forces,
we also gain more general insights as to why military groups employ different recruitment …

… Rebel recruitment, in particular, has attracted substantial effort. However, the question of …
is to test if rebels and counterinsurgents differ as existing theories of recruitment would predict, …