Alliance formation in civil wars

Abstract

Part I. Context and Theory: 1. Literature and research design 2. A theory of warring group alliances and fractionalization in multi-party civil wars Part II. Afghanistan: 3. The Afghan Intra-Mujahedin War, 1992-8 4. The Afghan Communist-Mujahedin War, 1978-89 5. The theory at the commander level in Afghanistan, 1978-98 Part III. Bosnia and Herzegovina: 6. The Bosnian Civil War, 1992-5 7. The Bosnian Civil War, 1941-5 Part IV. Further Extensions: 8. Quantitative testing on the universe of cases of multi-party civil wars.