ISBN:
130670877X
,
9780415855167
,
9781306708777
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Civil Wars
DDC:
303.6/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts reflect and are also a driving force for major societal change. In this sense, Understanding Civil Wars: Continuity and change in intrastate conflict argues that the nature of civil war is not fundamentally changing in nature.The book includes a thorough consideration of patterns and types of intrasta
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Scholarship on civil war: topics, debates and controversies; 3 Framing civil war studies; 4 Japan 1877; 5 The American Civil War 1861-65; 6 Liberia 1989-96; 7 Bosnia 1992-95; 8 Sri Lanka 1983-2009; 9 Patterns of civil war in historical perspective; 10 Civil wars in the 21st century: 'new wars', declining wars and post-colonial wars of statebuilding; 11 Containing, ending and resolving civil war; Select bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
