Nonstate Actors in Intrastate Conflicts

Acknowledgments

A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The editors wish to thank the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for its generous support to this project. In particular, we are grateful to the Institute’s director, Alfred Tovias, and to the members of its administrative staff, Anat Illouz and Hani Mazar. We are also indebted to our colleagues Ravi Bhavnani, Jennifer Brinkerhoff , Derick W. Brinkerhoff, Lars-Erik Cederman, Hyun Jin Choi, Petra Hendrickson , Richard Snyder, Cameron Thies, and Nils B. Weidmann, who commented on early drafts of several of the chapters included in this book. However, none of them are responsible for any remaining errors in the text. At the University of Pennsylvania Press, we are grateful to our editors, Bill Finan and Peter Agree, and to the series editor, Brendan O’Leary, for their continuous encouragement and support. We also thank the anonymous reviewers , who read the manuscript and provided us with helpful feedback, and to Colette Stoeber, Alison Anderson, and Roseann Staplins for editing it. Dan Miodownik wishes to particularly thank Lilach Nir his beloved wife, friend, and colleague for her love, advice, and endless encouragement. Oren Barak thanks his family—Orna, Paz, Guy, and Roy—for their love and patience. This book is dedicated to the memory of a dear colleague and friend, Joseph (Yossi) Kostiner, who encouraged us to launch this project and played an active part in it, but who passed away before it reached its final stages. ...