Internal conflicts threaten many countries and regions globally. The first part of this book examines the sources of internal conflicts and the ways these may a

This insightful book debates whether conflict within states has emerged as the Achilles Heel of the international community. It covers a wide-range of issues in

Internal security crises, from environmental disaster, extreme poverty and deprivation, armed conflicts, or ethnic or religious conflict, provide sites of oppor

Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention

Understanding the roots and causes of ethnic animosity; analyses of recent events in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, and the former Soviet Union. Most recent w