How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, is an important book that explains the rise of civil wars and the conditions that create them, especially when countries are not quite democratic. It shows us how to avoid them and return to peace.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

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When one of the world's leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die, Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them. We are now living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being fought in countries including Iraq, Syria, and Libya, and smaller civil wars are being fought in India and Malaysia. Even countries we thought could never experience another civil war - such as the USA, Sweden, and Ireland - are showing signs of unrest. So how can we stop them? In How Civil Wars Start, acclaimed expert Professor Barbara F. Walter, who has advised on political violence everywhere from the CIA to the U.S. Senate to the United Nations, explains the rise of civil wars and the conditions that create them - not least when countries are not quite democratic. As democracies across the world backslide and citizens become more polarised, civil wars will become even more widespread and last longer than they have in the past - but this urgent and important book shows us a path back toward peace.

Weight: 226g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241988398