Internal Wars

Author : Jonathan Smele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190613495

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The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by Jonathan Smele Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.

Author : Patrick M. Regan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472088769

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Civil Wars and Foreign Powers by Patrick M. Regan Pdf

Explores how outside intervention affects the course of civil wars

Author : Gad Barzilai
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791495902

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Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order by Gad Barzilai Pdf

This is the first comprehensive research study to analyze and explain the influence the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict has had on Israel. It focuses on the manner in which all of the Israeli-Arab wars since 1949, including the Intifada and the Gulf War, have affected state and society in Israel. In addition, it examines the influences of other, more limited Israeli military operations. These subjects are investigated within a broad theoretical framework based on a critical analysis of the literature. The author suggests an analytic qualitative model for understanding wars and internal political order and makes significant corrections to paradigms that deal with political order and wars, from the Marxist paradigm to the liberal paradigm.

Author : Ann Hironaka
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674038665

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Neverending Wars by Ann Hironaka Pdf

Since 1945, the average length of civil wars has increased three-fold. What explains this startling fact? Hironaka points to the crucial role of the international community in propping up new and weak states that resulted from the postwar decolonization movement. These states are prone to conflicts and lack the resources to resolve them decisively.

Author : Barbara F. Walter,Jack L. Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0231116276

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Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention by Barbara F. Walter,Jack L. Snyder Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. This volume offers a detailed examination of four recent interventions by the international community.

Author : Marie Olson Lounsbery,Frederic S. Pearson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802096727

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Civil Wars by Marie Olson Lounsbery,Frederic S. Pearson Pdf

"Clearly the best single volume treatment of civil war now available. This is an admirable synthesis and analysis of theoretical, historical, statistical, and case study literatures. Useful as a textbook at the undergraduate and graduate level." - Roy Licklider, Rutgers University

Author : Taisier M. Ali,Robert O. Matthews
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773567382

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Civil Wars in Africa by Taisier M. Ali,Robert O. Matthews Pdf

John Kiyaga-Nsubuga focuses on Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement regime's attempt to bring peace to Uganda. John Prendergast and Mark Duffield look at Ethiopia's long civil war and the role of liberation politics and external engagement. Bruce Jones studies the ethnic roots of the civil war in Rwanda. Elwood Dunn explores political manipulation and ethnic differences as causes of civil strife in Liberia. John Saul examines the role of Western powers in establishing peace in Mozambique. Hussein Adam describes the collapse of the authoritarian regime in Somalia and the subsequent rise of inter-clan and sub-clan rivalry. Taisier Ali and Robert Matthews argue that the forty-year conflict in Sudan is much more complex than the usual view that it results from the pitting of the Arab, Islamic North against the African, Christian South. Shifting the focus to how internal unrest may be managed, Hevina Dashwood examines government initiatives undertaken to maintain stability in Zimbabwe and Cranford Pratt describes the policies and institutions developed by Nyerere that enabled Tanzania to avoid ethnic, regional, and religious factionalism and intra-elite rivalries. James Busumtwi-Sam explores multilateral third-party intervention, highlighting the changing role of the OAU and the United Nations and their effectiveness in averting war. The concluding chapter draws together findings from the individual case studies and incorporates them into the larger corpus of the literature.

Author : Fotini Christia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139851756

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Alliance Formation in Civil Wars by Fotini Christia Pdf

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 fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared identity considerations - such as Christian groups allying with Christian groups - but this is not what we see. Two groups that identify themselves as bitter foes one day, on the basis of some identity narrative, might be allies the next day and vice versa. Nor is any group, however homogeneous, safe from internal fractionalization. Rather, looking closely at the civil wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia and testing against the broader universe of fifty-three cases of multiparty civil wars, Fotini Christia finds that the relative power distribution between and within various warring groups is the primary driving force behind alliance formation, alliance changes, group splits and internal group takeovers.

Author : Steve Early
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608460991

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The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor by Steve Early Pdf

Trade union leader and journalist Steve Early discusses how to reverse American labour's current decline.

Author : Eliav Lieblich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415507905

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International Law and Civil Wars by Eliav Lieblich Pdf

This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force against another - the main exceptions being self-defence and actions mandated by a UN Security Council resolution. However, one more potential exception exists: forcible intervention undertaken upon the invitation or consent of a government, seeking assistance in confronting armed opposition groups within its territory. Although the latter exception is of increasing importance, the numerous questions it raises have received scant attention in the current body of literature. This volume fills this gap by analyzing the consent-exception in a wide context, and attempting to delineate its limits, including cases in which government consent power is not only negated, but might be transferred to opposition groups. The book also discusses the concept of consensual intervention in contemporary international law, in juxtaposition to traditional legal doctrines. It traces the development of law in this context by drawing from historical examples such as the Spanish Civil War, as well as recent cases such those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Libya, and Syria. This book will be of much interest to students of international law, civil wars, the Responsibility to Protect, war and conflict studies, and IR in general.

Author : Donald M. Snow
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1555876552

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Uncivil Wars by Donald M. Snow Pdf

This work examines the pattern of internal, or civil, war that has emerged in the post-Cold War world. The book discusses how changes in the international system have encouraged the development of new internal wars, and considers how the wars may affect the security of the larger global system.

Author : Timothy D Sisk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134022373

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International Mediation in Civil Wars by Timothy D Sisk Pdf

This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for ‘powerful peacemaking’ – using incentives and sanctions – to leverage parties into peace. As internal violence within countries is a hugely significant threat to international peace in the post-Cold War era, the question of how these wars end has become an urgent research and policy question. This volume explores a critical aspect of peacemaking that has yet to be sufficiently evaluated: the turbulent period beyond the onset of formal or open negotiations to end civil wars and the clinching of an initially sustainable negotiated settlement. The book argues that the transnational flow of weapons, resources, and ideas means that when civil wars today end, they are more likely to do so at the negotiating table than on the battlefield. It uses bargaining theory to develop an analytical framework to evaluate peace processes – moving from stalemate in wars to negotiated settlement – and it rigorously analyses the experiences of five cases of negotiated transitions from war and the role of international mediators: South Africa, Liberia, Burundi, Kashmir, and Sri Lanka.

Author : Jonathan D. Smele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442252813

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by Jonathan D. Smele Pdf

This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born. At the same time, it is a necessary corrective to studies that have viewed events of the time as a unitary “Russian Civil War” that sprang from the Russian Revolution of 1917. Instead, it contributes to the ongoing process of integrating the civil wars into a “continuum of crises” that wracked the Russian Empire and its would-be successor states across a prolonged period. The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 covers the history of this period through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has almost 2,000 cross-referenced entries on individuals, political and governmental institutions and political parties, and military formations and concepts, as well as religion, art, film, propaganda, uniforms, and weaponry. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russian Civil War.

Author : Harry Eckstein
Publisher : [New York] : Free Press of Glencoe
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Government, Resistance to
ISBN : UOM:39015002724311

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Internal War by Harry Eckstein Pdf

Author : Patricia Marchak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773578029

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No Easy Fix by Patricia Marchak Pdf

The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of individual responsibility, they are not designed to deal with collective crimes against humanity and genocide, nor are they good instruments for dealing with the breakdown of societies. Bringing together her own field interviews, documentary material, and secondary sources, Marchak critically assesses the recent history of international interventions and criminal prosecutions. She examines three cases in detail: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia in its current forms of Bosnia and Serbia, considers their international context prior to and during internal wars, and argues that each case has to be understood in its own context and history - there is no common pattern and no easy fix that could mend broken societies after the wars. No Easy Fix is of interest to anyone concerned with how the international community deals with civil wars that involve serious crimes against humanity.