How civil wars start : and how to stop them

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How civil wars start : and how to stop them

Barbara F. Walter

Crown, [2022], c2022

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Summary: "A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States. Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country. Perhaps surprisingly, both autocracies and healthy democracies are largely immune from civil war; it's the countries in the middle ground that are most vulnerable. And this is where more and more countries, including the United States, are finding themselves today. Over the last two decades, the number of active civil wars around the world has almost do

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction
  • The age of anocracies
  • The rise of factions
  • The dark consequences of losing status
  • When hope dies
  • The accelerant
  • How close are we?
  • What a war would look like
  • Preventing a civil war

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