[Ending civil wars]

From: International Journal | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: King, Charles; Taylor, JH-reviewer | Copyright information

London: Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1997, Adelphi Paper 308, 94pp, US$25.00

Canadians who believe that their country has a vocation for peacekeeping will profit from reading this book. In it Charles King, who teaches in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, analyzes the phenomenon of contemporary civil wars and how they end. Most of the. world's wars are now civil wars. Allowing for problems of definition, King claims...

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