TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christia,Fotini
TI  - Alliance formation in civil wars
SN  - 9781107023024 (hardback)
AV  - JC328.5 .C57 2012
U1  - 303.6/4 23
KW  - Civil war
KW  - Alliances
KW  - Case studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Part I. Context and Theory: 1. Literature and research design; 2. A theory of warring group alliances and fractionalization in mult-party civil wars; Part II. Afghanistan: 3. The Afghan Intra-Mujahedin War, 1992-1998; 4. The Afghan Communist-Mujahedin War, 1978-1989; 5. The theory at the commander level in Afghanistan, 1978-1998; Part III. Bosnia and Herzegovina: 6. The Bosnian Civil War, 1992-1995; 7. The Bosnian Civil War, 1941-1945; Part IV. Further Extensions: 8. Quantitative testing on the universe of cases of multi-party civil wars
N2  - "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"--
ER  -