Understanding civil wars: continuity and change in intrastate conflict

Introduction

Scholarship on civil war : topics, debates and controversies

Framing civil war studies

Japan 1877

The American Civil War 1861-65

Liberia 1989-96

Bosnia 1992-95

Sri Lanka 1983-2009

Patterns of civil war in historical perspective

Civil Wars in the 21st century : new wars, declining wars and post-colonial wars of statebuilding

Containing, ending and resolving civil war.