How Civil Wars Start Av Barbara F. Walter

<p><b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>''When one of the world''s leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book'' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of <i>How Democracies Die</i></b><br><br><b>Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.</b><br><br>Most of us don''t know it, but we are living in the world''s greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. This is a new phenomenon. With the exception of a handful of cases - the American and English civil wars, the French Revolution - historically it has been rare for people to organise and fight their governments.<br><br>This has changed. Since 1946, over 250 armed conflicts have broken out around the world, a number that continues to rise. Major civil wars are now being fought in countries including

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