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Nations Torn Asunder : The Challenge of Civil War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191033537
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nations Torn AsunderDDC classification:
  • 303.6409045
LOC classification:
  • JZ6385.K577 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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 theories -- The 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 1989-2014 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Periodicals and newspapers -- Specific media sources -- INDEX.
Summary: 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 tragic phenomenon.
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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 theories -- The 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 1989-2014 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Periodicals and newspapers -- Specific media sources -- INDEX.

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 tragic phenomenon.

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