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Alliance formation in civil wars /

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"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:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Civil war. Alliances. Civil war > Case studies. Alliances > Case studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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