PS160 Force and Strategy, Fall 2008

Ethnic/Sectarian Civil Wars and Criteria for Military Intervention

Author: Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

	Force and Strategy
	Outline
	Questions
	The Argument
	Argument (cont.)
	General Relationship between State Failure and Civil Wars
	Old Conventional Wisdom about Civil Wars Termination and Peace Settlements
	Principles of Partition Theory
	Partition Theory (cont.)
	Ethnic vs. Ideological Civil Wars
	Ideological vs. Ethnic Civil Wars (cont.)
	Qualification of Terms
	Security Dilemmas within States
	Geography and Civil Wars
	Why Reconstruction and Reconciliation is Often Impossible
	Security Dilemma or Security Dilemmas in Ethnic Civil Wars?
	Security Dilemma or Security Dilemmas in Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars? (cont.)
	Security Dilemma or Dilemmas? (cont.)
	Security Dilemma or Security Dilemmas? (cont.)
	Security Dilemma or Security Dilemmas in Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars? (cont.)
	Objections to Interventions
	Objections to Interventions

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