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Nations torn asunder : the challenge of civil war /

Focusing on the explosion of civil wars since 1945, Bill Kissane asks what makes the contemporary challenge posed by civil wars different to that of past periods - and looks at what the insights from the historical literature, going back to the ancient Greeks, can add to our understanding of this tr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kissane, Bill (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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  • Cover; NATIONS TORN ASUNDER: The Challenge of Civil War; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS; 1: INTRODUCTION; Not thinking about civil war; Thinking about civil war in history; Thinking about civil war in social science; 2: CIVIL WAR IN HISTORY; Words for civil war; Civil war; Internal war; New wars; Should we abandon the concept of civil war?; Conclusion; 3: PATTERNS OF CIVIL WAR SINCE 1945; Violent modernity; Patterns of internal war in the new states; Patterns across geographical regions; Patterns within conflict zones; Summary; Conclusion; 4: CAUSES; Structural theories.
  • Process-based theoriesThe case of Algeria; Conclusion; 5: CONSEQUENCES; Consequences; The conflict trap; Material and moral harm; State failure and state collapse; Should Hobbes be our guide?; Conclusion; 6: RECOVERY; An age of reconstruction; The evaluation of peace-building missions and reconstruction projects; Reconstruction and reconciliation; Conclusion; EPILOGUE: CIVIL WAR AND HUMAN DIVISIVENESS; Two perspectives on human divisiveness; Human divisiveness as fragmentation; The question of definition; Conclusion; APPENDIX 1: EXTERNAL INVOLVEMENT AND PEACE AGREEMENTS 1989-2014.
  • APPENDIX 2: APPROACHES TO PEACE AND THE CONTENT OF PEACE AGREEMENTS 1989-2014BIBLIOGRAPHY; Periodicals and newspapers; Specific media sources; INDEX.