GOVT-337 Civil Wars

Civil wars have become the most common type of contemporary armed conflict. This course analyzes the causes, dynamics, outcomes, and aftermath of civil wars. Topics include the systematic factors that predict when civil war occurs, logic of violence in civil war, armed group recruitment and governance, international intervention, and post-conflict politics.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

One 200-level course in Comparative Politics or International Relations

Notes

(International Relations)