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Joining the fray outside military intervention in civil wars

Building on his earlier volume, Is this a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join?, Zachary C. Shirkey looks at how the decision to join a civil war can be intuitively understood as follows.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shirkey, Zachary C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Ashgate Publishing Routledge 2012
Series:Military strategy and operational art
Subjects:
Civil war
Intervention (International law) > Case studies
Military history, Modern > 20th century
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Table of Contents:
  • The puzzle and importance of military intervention in civil wars
  • Why states join civil wars: revealed information and commitment problems
  • The Hungarian revolution (1848-49): unexpected defeats and nagging commitment problems
  • The Lebanese civil war (1975-90): revealed information, commitment problems or pretexts?
  • The First and Second Congo wars (1996-2003): ethnic ties, refugee flows and commitment problems
  • The Afghan civil war (1978-2001): invasion versus military aid
  • Conclusions, extensions, implications for policy and avenues for future research

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