Alliance Formation in Civil Wars

Posted on 2012-11-122012-11-12 by Fotini Christia

Author : Fotini Christia

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Release : 2012-11-12

ISBN-13 : 1107023025

Page : 343 pages

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"This book argues that relative power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why combatant groups in the Afghan civil wars constantly aligned with and double-crossed each other, and develops a theory on alliance formation and group fractionalization in multiparty civil wars"--

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