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Alliance formation in civil wars, by Fotini Christia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 343 pp., $32.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781107683488, $95.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781107023024 by Hannes Artens is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Alliance formation in civil wars, by Fotini Christia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 343 pp., $32.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781107683488, $95.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781107023024 Despite having become something of a platitude, it is understood to be a fact that the majority of violent conflicts since the end of the Cold War are not between states, but are civil wars, fought often only indirectly over the control of territory per se but primarily over ideational differences, be they ethnic, religious, ideological, or a combination thereof. However, experience from the complex dynamics of ever-shifting alliances, fractionalization, and ethno-nationalist elites manipulating group identities for their own material ends in the wars of the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, Western, Central, and Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia have led scholars to question whether these ideational conflicts should be considered separate phenomena at all. Indeed, it has been argued that Robert Kaplan's infamous "ancient hatreds" (in his Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History, 1994) obscure conflict causes and patterns that neo-realists claim remain universally valid for all con
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- Author
- Hannes Artens
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences