Recent work in international relations has problematized state-centric assumptions of governance to explore variations in authority by a range of nonstate actors (e.g., nongovernmental organizations, criminal syndicates, gangs). This forum centers on the phenomenon of rebel group governance during civil wars and leverages the concept to advance our understanding of current theories and conceptualizations of governance. The nature of rebel organizations provides a unique opportunity for researchers to expand the state-centric focus on governance because rebel actors differ from states in their comparative position within the global state system, the contexts in which they operate, and their lack of legitimizing principles that permit consistent membership as a class of political actors. These differences allow for meaningful extensions of how we theorize and conceptualize governance beyond the state. Furthermore, variation across these differences allows our findings in the study rebel governance to speak directly to the broader literature in international relations on governance by state actors. In our introduction to this forum, we detail the ways in which rebel groups have chosen to address the central components of governance through a variety of governance strategies. We then devote three essays in the forum to the concepts of legitimacy, capacity, and territorial control. In each of the three essays, authors discuss the ways in which rebel governance problematizes and advances these concepts for the broader study of governance. In the conclusion, this forum synthesizes extant and emerging work in the field of rebel governance in order to raise new questions of the governance and state building literatures. In this way, we show how investigating governance by rebel groups in particular advances our understanding of governance more broadly.

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反抗与统治：从反叛团体学习治理

最近在国际关系方面的工作对以国家为中心的治理假设提出了质疑，以探索一系列非国家行为者（例如，非政府组织、犯罪集团、帮派）的权威变化。该论坛以内战期间反叛团体治理现象为中心，并利用这一概念来促进我们对当前治理理论和概念化的理解。反叛组织的性质为研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，可以扩展以国家为中心的治理关注，因为反叛行为者在全球国家体系中的比较地位、他们运作的环境以及缺乏合法化原则等方面与国家不同。允许作为一类政治行为者的一致成员资格。这些差异允许有意义地扩展我们如何将治理理论化和概念化超越国家。此外，这些差异的差异使我们在反叛治理研究中的发现可以直接与国际关系中关于国家行为者治理的更广泛文献进行对话。在我们对本论坛的介绍中，我们详细介绍了反叛团体选择通过各种治理策略解决治理的核心组成部分的方式。然后，我们在论坛上用三篇文章讨论合法性、能力和领土控制的概念。在三篇文章的每一篇中，作者都​​讨论了反叛治理问题的方式，并为更广泛的治理研究推进了这些概念。在结论中，该论坛综合了叛军治理领域现有和新兴的工作，以提出治理和国家建设文献的新问题。通过这种方式，我们展示了调查反叛团体的治理如何特别地促进了我们对治理的更广泛的理解。