Globally, in the past ten years, there has been a four-fold increase in internal war or civil war in developing countries. This book is one of the first full length studies on the subject.

Amalendu Misra is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University. He is the author of Afghanistan: The Labyrinth of Violence (Polity) and Identity Religion: Foundations of anti-Islamism in India (Sage).

Introduction 1. Theorising Civil War 2. Poverty of Nationalism 3. Erotics of Violence 4. Impasse in Intervention 5. Responsibility to Rebuild - Tasks for Sisyphus 6. Governing the Ungovernable 7. Realms of Reconciliation 8. Closing the Conflict Cycle. Conclusion. Bibliography