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Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Roy Licklider
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Description for Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
Paperback. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Cambodia -- all provide bloody evidence that civil wars continue to have a powerful impact on the international scene. Because they tear at the very fabric of a society and pit countryman against countryman, civil wars are often the most brutal and difficult to extinguish -- witness the American Revolution.
And yet, civil wars do inevitably end. England is no longer criss-crossed by warring armies representing York and Lancaster or King and Parliament. The French no longer kill one another over the divine right of kings. Argentines seem ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814750971
SKU
V9780814750971
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99-50
About Roy Licklider
Roy Licklider is professor of political science at Rutgers University, and author of Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon and The Private Nuclear Strategists.
Reviews for Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End
A good primer on what will almost certainly be the major foreign policy problem of our time.
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