Christia, Fotini. <br/><br/>
Alliance formation in civil wars / 
Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
 - xvi, 343 p 
<br/><br/> "This book argues that relative power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why combatant groups in the Afghan civil wars constantly aligned with and double-crossed each other, and develops a theory on alliance formation and group fractionalization in multiparty civil wars"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107023024 (hardback) 9781107683488 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil war.<br/>Alliances.<br/>Civil war--Case studies.<br/>Alliances--Case studies.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300  / CHR