Логика насилия в гражданской войне

New! 2019 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award! The latest writings on civil wars are often fascinating and cover a lot of material, but these works usually do not provide a detailed description of the reasons for the escalation of violence against civilians. The study by the American political scientist Statis Kalivas is a landmark and extremely valuable work: it examines the causes and dynamics of violence in the civil war with an unprecedented degree of specificity and detail, without compromising the credibility of the analysis. Contrary to the prevailing opinion that such violence is either the result of unbridled madness, or a way to achieve strategic goals, the author argues that within the framework of civil wars there are actions at the micro level that have little correlation with the general direction of the conflict. Stathis Kalivas is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oxford. The 2006 book The Logic of Violence in Civil War by S. Kalivas won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association and the Best Book Award from the European Academy of Sociology.