Marie Olson Lounsbery, Fred Pearson

Civil Wars

Internal Struggles, Global Consequences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Clearly the best single volume treatment of civil war now available. This is an admirable synthesis and analysis of theoretical, historical, statistical, and case study literatures. Useful as a textbook at the undergraduate and graduate level." - Roy Licklider, Rutgers University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780802096722
• ISBN-10: 0802096727
• Artikelnr.: 26017703

Autorenporträt

Marie Olson Lounsbery is Assistant Professor of Political Science at East Carolina University. She pioneered approaches to teaching about civil wars and is the author of several articles on civil war and conflict resolution. She has been involved in several research projects examining the causes and resolution of civil wars and ethnopolitical violence. Frederic Pearson is the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. He is the author of The Global Spread of Arms (Westview, 1994), Arms and Warfare (University of South Carolina Press, 1994), and Arms and Ethnic Conflict (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). In addition, he has twice been a Fulbright Scholar and had served as consultant to the US Commission on National Security.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Civil War in the Contemporary Era
2. The Causes of Civil War: Individual and Group Analysis
3. State-Level Factors Leading to Civil War
4. International Effects on Civil Wars
5. Conflict Processes During Civil Wars
6. The Resolution of Civil Wars
7. The Aftermath of Civil War
Appendix: A List of Intrastate Conflicts, 1946-2000
References
Index