Civil Wars
Internal Struggles, Global Consequences
University of Toronto Press
Published on 20. January 2009
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4426-0132-1 (ISBN)
Description
What motivates individuals to take up arms against their government? What types of states have historically been more prone to internal conflicts? In Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequences Marie Olson Lounsbery and Frederic Pearson explore these questions and present a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences, and management potential regarding civil wars throughout the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-0132-1 (9781442601321)
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Persons
Marie Olson Lounsbery is Assistant Professor of Political Science at East Carolina University. She pioneered approaches to teaching about civil wars and is the author of several articles on civil war and conflict resolution. She has been involved in several research projects examining the causes and resolution of civil wars and ethnopolitical violence. Frederic Pearson is the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Global Spread of Arms (Westview, 1994), Arms and Warfare (University of South Carolina Press, 1994), and Arms and Ethnic Conflict (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). In addition, he has twice been a Fulbright Scholar and had served as consultant to the US Commission on National Security.
Content
Preface 1. Civil War in the Contemporary Era 2. The Causes of Civil War: Individual and Group Analysis 3. State-Level Factors Leading to Civil War 4. International Effects on Civil Wars 5. Conflict Processes During Civil Wars 6. The Resolution of Civil Wars 7. The Aftermath of Civil War Appendix: A List of Intrastate Conflicts, 1946-2000 References Index