Nations Torn Asunder

Nations Torn Asunder

The Challenge of Civil War

Kissane, Bill (Reader in Politics, London School of Economics)

Oxford University Press

03/2015

304

Dura

Inglês

9780199602872

15 a 20 dias

Focusing on the explosion of civil wars since 1945, Bill Kissane asks what makes the contemporary challenge posed by civil wars different to that of past periods - and looks at what the insights from the historical literature, going back to the ancient Greeks, can add to our understanding of this tragic phenomenon
Introduction ; 1. Civil War in History ; 2. Patterns ; 3. Causes ; 4. Consequences ; 5. Recovery ; Epilogue: Civil War and Human Divisiveness ; Further Reading ; Notes ; Index