loppear reviewed How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
The influence of modern life on the civil wars, with an emphasis on grievance, faction …
if you want to read it, you probably don't need to
3 stars
Data-oriented with narrative recounting of the buildup to 20c civil war in Yugoslavia, Syria, N. Ireland, Myanmar, Indonesia. Anocracy - in a gray area between democracy and autocracy - and ethnic Factionalism, and less solidly the fuel of broadcast or social media, are the risk factors she's most worried about. The second half starts to talk about the current U.S. directly, but given the advice is to strengthen trust in democratic institutions and broaden the social safety net and prosecute domestic terrorists, well... she claims to be optimistic at the end.