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What Do We Know about Civil Wars?
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Overview
With a consistent approach across chapters and through a wide variety of cases, the contributors collectively help readers understand some of the most pressing questions in conflict and security studies and illustrates how scholars answer them. This authoritative text offers both an accessible and current overview of the state of the field and an agenda for future research.
The second features:
- An entirely new chapter on pro-government militias and rebels as criminal groups (Chapter 16)
- Analysis of new trends in civil war data collection that have enabled us to understand geographic and temporal patterns of armed conflict
- New directions in transitional justice institutions in post-conflict environments, the “resource curse,” the role of women, and the relationship between the environment and civil conflict
- New material on mediation of conflict and peace agreement implementation, and peacekeeping
- Examples drawn from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781538169162 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 02/15/2023 |
Series: | What Do We Know about Civil Wars? |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 438 |
Sales rank: | 1,127,425 |
Product dimensions: | 6.19(w) x 8.72(h) x 0.83(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Political Science and the College of Law (courtesy appointment) at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science at Michigan State University in 1997. She is author of six books including Domestic Law Goes Global: Legal Traditions and International Courts (2011) and What Do We Know About War? (2021) and she has published more than sixty journal articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of several major research awards from the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and USAID. Her areas of expertise include international conflict, political methodology, and gender issues in academia. Professor Mitchell is co-founder of the Journeys in World Politics workshop, a mentoring workshop for junior women studying international relations. She is the recipient of several research, teaching, and graduate mentoring awards from the University of Iowa, the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence (2022), the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award (2015) from the International Studies Association, a distinguished alumni award from Iowa State University, and she served as President of the Peace Science Society.
Table of Contents
List of FiguresList of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Do We Know About Civil Wars?
Part I. Factors That Bring About Civil War
Chapter 1. Introduction: Patterns of Armed Conflict since 1945
Chapter 2. Antecedents of Civil War Onset: Greed, Grievance, and State Repression
Chapter 3. Identity and Civil War: Ethnic and Religious Divisions
Chapter 4. State Capacity, Regime Type, and Civil War
Chapter 5. Transnational Dimensions of Civil Wars: Clustering, Contagion, and Connectedness
Part II. Factors That End Civil Wars and Promote Peace
Chapter 6. Third Party Intervention, Duration, and Outcome of Civil Wars
Chapter 7. Ripe for Resolution: Third Party Mediation and Negotiating Peace Agreements
Chapter 8. Negotiated Peace: Power Sharing in Peace Agreements
Chapter 9. Breaking the Conflict Trap: The Impact of Peacekeeping on Violence and Democratization in the Post-Conflict Context
Chapter 10. The Legacies of Civil War: Health, Education, and Economic Development
Part III. Emerging Trends in Civil War Research
Chapter 11. Transitional Justice: Prospects for Post-War Peace and Human Rights
Chapter 12. Gender and Civil Wars
Chapter 13. Resource Wealth and Civil Conflict
Chapter 14. Environment and Conflict
Chapter 15. Trends in Civil War Data: Geography, Organizations, and Events
Chapter 16. Militias, Criminality, and Conflict
Bibliography
About the Editors
Index