Bill Kissane (Reader in Politics, Reader in Politics, London School

Gebundenes Buch

Nations Torn Asunder

The Challenge of Civil War

Beschreibung

Focusing on the explosion of civil wars since 1945, Bill Kissane asks what makes the contemporary challenge posed by civil wars different to that of past periods - and looks at what the insights from the historical literature, going back to the ancient Greeks, can add to our understanding of this tragic phenomenon

Autor

A political scientist and historian, Bill Kissane is a Reader in Politics at the London School of Economics, where he is a member of the Conflict Research Group. He is the author of several books on civil-war related subjects, including a pioneering study of the Irish civil war, The Politics of the Irish Civil War (2005), also published by Oxford University Press, and has held visiting positions at University College Dublin, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Bielefeld, and the National Humanities Centre in North Carolina.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780199602872
• ISBN-10: 0199602875
• Artikelnr.: 43171687