@article{841108, author = {Christia, Fotini.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/841108}, title = {Alliance formation in civil wars [electronic resource] /}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press,}, abstract = {"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"--}, recid = {841108}, pages = {xvi, 343 p. :}, address = {Cambridge :}, year = {2012}, }