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"--

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Christia, Fotini
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Civil war. Alliances. Civil war > Case studies. Alliances > Case studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.