While significant scholarly attention has been given to the literatures on civil war and on alliances, there has not been any exploration of the important role
Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fra
This book draws on bargaining theory, signaling theory, and rational expectations to better understand how 'signals' sent from external actors affect civil wars
This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research i
This book identifies the conditions under which foreign countries intervene in civil wars, contending that we should consider four dimensions of civil war inter