The Rising Tide of the American Militia: An Unlikely Product of 21st Century Intervention
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- February 26, 2019
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Kellomaki, Erik
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense
- Abstract
- Up to this point, very little research has been conducted on the militia organizations formed and growing post-2008, and many fail to realize that these new militia movements exhibit a highly different structure, ideology, and set of targets from their 1990’s counterparts. Even less research exists on the actual causes of the skyrocketing motion of the movement’s popularity. This thesis seeks to fill this informational void and assert that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan played an instrumental role not only in the organizational mobilization of the modern American militia movement, but also in molding its constitutionally-focused, anti-government, patriot ideology and the way it conducts its operations. Although the 21st century American intervention influenced militia resurgence to a high degree, it is essential to note that changing domestic political conditions paralleled it. In order to best understand the subject matter, this thesis seeks to not paint the American militia as heroes nor as barbaric, hateful gunslingers, but as an ideologically determined minority group that is willing to threaten and even resort to violence for its political purposes.
- Date of publication
- spring 2016
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Waltman, Michael
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 112
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