This book identifies the conditions under which foreign countries intervene in civil wars, contending that we should consider four dimensions of civil war inter

Explores how outside intervention affects the course of civil wars

This book argues power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why warring Afghan groups aligned with and double-crossed each other.

Rebuts the pervasive 'folk' notion that quagmire is intrinsic to a country or civil war. Shows that quagmire is made, not found.