Alliance formation in civil wars

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"This book argues that relative power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why combatant groups in the Afghan civil wars constantly aligned with and double-crossed each other, and develops a theory on alliance formation and group fractionalization in multiparty civil wars"--

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Full title :Alliance formation in civil wars / Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Publication Date:2012.

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Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (xvi, 343 pages)

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ISBN:9781139845038, 1139845039, 9781139840293, 1139840290, 9781139149426, 1139149423, 1283836068, 9781283836067, 9781139842679, 1139842676
oclc:on1104455815
LC Classification:JC328.5
Dewey Decimal:303.6/4

Introduction -- Part I. Context and Theory: 1. Literature and research design; 2. A theory of warring group alliances and fractionalization in mult-party civil wars -- Part II. Afghanistan: 3. The Afghan Intra-Mujahedin War, 1992-1998; 4. The Afghan Communist-Mujahedin War, 1978-1989; 5. The theory at the commander level in Afghanistan, 1978-1998 -- Part III. Bosnia and Herzegovina: 6. The Bosnian Civil War, 1992-1995; 7. The Bosnian Civil War, 1941-1945 -- Part IV. Further Extensions: 8. Quantitative testing on the universe of cases of multi-party civil wars -- Conclusion.