TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christia,Fotini
TI  - Alliance formation in civil wars
SN  - 9781107023024 (hardback)
U1  - 300 
KW  - Civil war
KW  - Alliances
KW  - Case studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
N2  - "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"--
ER  -