Publisher's Synopsis
"Conceptual Typology of Resistance" provides a working template of a resistance movement which can be expanded upon in any number of ways to suit the unique circumstances of a given situation.The Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) project consists of a series of case studies and research conducted for the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) by the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). Current and ongoing research efforts expand the ARIS mission into the development of analytical tools and methodologies to facilitate the deep and robust study of resistance, which is conceptually framed as the overarching phenomena that encompasses a broad spectrum of disruptive movement types, both violent and nonviolent.Resistance is defined in this work as a form of contention or asymmetric conflict involving participants' limited or collective mobilization of subversive and/or disruptive efforts against an authority or structure. To better understand the fundamental attributes of this phenomenon, the ARIS team developed this conceptual typology of resistance (hereinafter called "the typology" or "ARIS typology"). This effort seeks to both organize the interrelated concepts essential to resistance in a formalized kind hierarchy and identify how these concepts are related to each other.The typology is best described as an integrated kind hierarchy of individual concept typologies directly applicable to resistance groups and movements. The conceptual typologies are organized within the overarching attributes of resistance and their interior categories. As will be outlined in this work, the typology incorporates original, adaptive, and derivative work into a single construct, contributing to the research and literature as an instrument for concept development in the study of resistance. In this way, the typology provides a starting point for the formulation and evaluation of explanatory claims that can then be tested and verified through both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
