This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research i

A useful collection for students as the interest in the politics of ethnicity continues.

This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the cas

The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joine