…one. The Civil War, and the various ways of interpreting it, are added to the mix because the Civil War tests the question whether the nation can continue, and if…

…exterminatory and civil war violence. The intensity of war—specifically threat perception—shapes leaders’ willingness to use mass violence and the public’s acceptance of it. The Ivoirian crisis, as well as my…

…killer. In a century of two world wars and many smaller ones, including civil wars, about 40 million men have died in uniform. But governments also kill non-combatants, and the…

…hollowing out of American civil society? What role have foundations and nonprofits played in fueling polarization? Are we heading toward a new civil war? These are just a few of…

…conflict took the form of what I am now terming “raiding war” (in some ways roughly equivalent to what used to be termed “primitive war”), as opposed to what I…

Dr. Chris Blattman is the author of Why We Fight: The Roots of War and Paths to Peace and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of…

…war because Angola and Mozambique had just got independence, and they immediately broke into civil war. And so Botswana thought, “What do we do?” One of the things that they…

…After World War II, we saw a distinct rise in civil wars. Some of those were wars of independence, of course, in the 1950s and ’60s. And then there were…

…wage a drug war, however, made the government vulnerable to charges of immorality, creating the need to justify the war by claiming it was acting to protect British national honor….

…was one of the most violent regions during World War II in all of Eastern Europe, as it was home to Soviet partisan warfare, a Ukrainian nationalist uprising, brutal Nazi…