17.582 Civil War, Spring 2005

Petersen, Roger

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Petersen, Roger

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Civil War

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Abstract

This course surveys the social science literature on civil war. It studies the origins of civil war, discusses variables affecting duration, and examines termination of conflict. This subject is highly interdisciplinary and covers a wide variety of cases, although with concentration on various Balkan civil wars.

Date issued

2005-06

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69615

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science

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17.582-Spring2005

local: 17.582

local: IMSCP-MD5-44459a2c04303df1bf84139622fa24c8

Keywords

Political science, social science, civil war, origins, duration, termination, conflict, Balkan, World Bank, Identity, fear, greed, death, intervention, peace, Columbia, Sudan, Iraq, El Salvador, South Africa, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

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