Alliance formation in civil wars Fotini Christia.

"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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Main Author: Christia, Fotini.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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300 |a xvi, 343 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8 |a 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. 
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