TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kissane,Bill
TI  - Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War
SN  - 9780191033537
AV  - JZ6385.K577 2016 
U1  - 303.6409045 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Civil war--History--20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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