Civil Wars: A Very Short Introduction

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Civil Wars: A Very Short Introduction
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Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: A short history of civil wars, and why civil wars matter
	Civil wars in history
	Why civil wars matter today
Chapter 2: What is a civil war?
	Defining “civil war”
	Battle deaths
	Level of violence and organization
	What is not a civil war?
		Protests, riots, and mass demonstrations
		Genocides and mass killings
		Terrorism
	How do civil wars relate to other types of conflict?
		Interstate wars
		Extrasystemic wars
	Are modern civil wars different?
		Causes and motivation
		Sources of support
		Levels of violence
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Causes of civil war
	Ethnic civil wars
		A brief history of scholarship on ethnic civil wars
		Causes of ethnic conflict
		Ethnicity and nationalism
		Security dilemma
		Elite-driven
		Grievance and greed
		Political systems and governance
		Religion
	Nonethniccivil war
		Economic concerns
		Resource imbalance
	Who fights?
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: Consequences
	Death and displacement
	Health and disease
	Employment and education
	Economy
	Politics
	Recurrence
	UN interventions and peacekeeping operations
	Partitions after ethnic wars
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: Transnational effects
	What crosses borders?
		Armed groups
		Refugees
		Arms, drugs, and trafficking
	How are other states affected?
		Economic consequences
		Security implications
		Long-termproblems
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: External involvement
	Types of interventions
		Diplomatic interventions
		Economic interventions
		Military interventions
	Why do third parties intervene?
		Identity
		Economic considerations
		Transnational externalities
		Geopolitical implications
		Humanitarian concerns
	Peacekeeping
		Successes and complications of peacekeeping
	Do military interventions in civil wars work?
Chapter 7: Ending civil wars
	How civil wars end
	The precariousness of peace
Chapter 8: The past, present, and future of civil wars
	What we know
	What we need to learn
	What the future holds
References
Further reading
Index