Understanding civil wars : continuity and change in intrastate conflict
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Understanding civil wars : continuity and change in intrastate conflict
(Routledge studies in civil wars and intra-state conflict)
Routledge, 2014
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 intrastate conflict and debates relating to the causes, impact, and 'changing nature' of war. A key focus is on the political and social driving forces of such conflict and its societal meanings, significance and consequences. The author also explores methodological and epistemological challenges related to studying and understanding intrastate war. A range of questions and debates are addressed. What is the current knowledge regarding the causes and nature of armed intrastate conflict? Is it possible to produce general, cross-national theories on civil war which have broad explanatory relevance? Is the concept of 'civil wars' empirically meaningful in an era of globalization and transnational war? Has intrastate conflict fundamentally changed in nature? Are there historical patterns in different types of intrastate conflict? What are the most interesting methodological trends and debates in the study of armed intrastate conflict? How are narratives about the causes and nature of civil wars constructed around ideas such as ethnic conflict, separatist conflict and resource conflict?
This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, intrastate conflict, security studies and international relations in general.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Scholarship on Civil War: Topics, Debates and Controversies 3. Framing Civil Wars 4. Case Study: Japan, 1877 5. 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, Post-colonial Wars of Statebuilding 11. Conclusion: Containing, Ending and Resolving Civil War - Lessons from History
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