Renly Baratheon of Storm’s End – also Roberts’s brother but younger than Stannis, nonetheless claiming he will be a better king than Stannis. Stannis Baratheon of Dragonstone – on the claim that he is the true heir to the throne as Robert’s eldest brother.
In the outset of the W5K there are three actors (rebels) challenging the Iron Throne: Thus, in my analysis any attack directly toward the Iron Throne or the Lannisters should be considered a civil war event. However, as we know, King Joffrey is not a Baratheon, but the son of Cersei and Jamie Lannister. At the start of the W5K this is King Joffrey Baratheon who has taken the place as king after his father. The state is clearly whoever sits on the Iron Throne and his or her family. That’s a rare phenomenon in GoT as well as in the real world (see the orange area in Figure 2).
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Hence the Battle of Castle Black between the Night Watch and Free Folk lead by Mance Rayder – The-King-Beyond-the-Wall – should not be seen as part of the W5K civil war – it is in fact an international war. The territory north of the wall where the Wildlings or the Free Folk live is not a part of the sovereign state which constitutes the Seven Kingdoms. The Seven Kingdoms includes the main parts of Westeros, but not all of it (see Figure 1). In our research on civil conflict at PRIO we use the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) definition of conflict: “a contested incompatibility that concerns government and/or territory where the use of armed force between two parties, of which at least one is the government of a state, results in at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar year.”įigure 2: Development of conflict over time.īut how is this reflected in Game of Thrones? First of all, a civil war is an internal conflict within one country. They vitiate their politics they corrupt their morals they even pervert the natural taste of equity and justice.” Political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke said, “Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people. The majority of conflicts in the world today are civil wars (see Figure 2), therefore to make the best possible comparison I looked at the War of the 5 Kings (W5K), which starts after King Robert Baratheon’s death and is the core conflicts in the first seasons of GoT. To start though, in order to be able to compare anything we first need to make sure we are comparing the same things.
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