Alliance formation in civil wars
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xvi, 343 p. ill., maps 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107023024 (hardback) 9781107683488 (paperback) |