Civil wars create regional and global instability that threatens economic initiatives and political continuity. Preventing civil wars is a challenge that the policy community is ill-equipped to handle. This book uses argument, evidence, and intuition born of experience to provide an account of civil wars and the steps we can take to reduce them.

Patrick M. Regan

Chapter 1 Sixteen Million; Part 1 Causes; Chapter 2 Discontent; Chapter 3 Forewarnings; Chapter 4 Houses Built on Sand; Chapter 5 Tipping Point; Chapter 6 Perfect Storm; Part 2 Who Fights?; Chapter 7 Exclusion and Solidarity; Chapter 8 Bloody Favoritism; Chapter 9 Intransigence and Repression; Chapter 10 Scylla and Charybdis; Part 3 World Stage; Chapter 11 Lawyers, Guns, and Money; Chapter 12 Persuasion; Chapter 13 Blue Helmets and Bleu Cheese; Chapter 14 The Road to Damascus;