Alliance formation in civil wars [electronic resource] / Fotini Christia.
Christia, Fotini.
2012
JC328.5 .C57 2012
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Title
Alliance formation in civil wars [electronic resource] / Fotini Christia.
Author
Christia, Fotini.
ISBN
9781107023024
9781107683488
9781139845038 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 343 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number
JC328.5 .C57 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.6/4
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 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.

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