Alan Taylor, a professor at the University of Virginia, offers compelling new insights in “American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873,” a fine addition to his series of narrative ...

History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories. But not since World ...

History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories. But not since World ...

As the civil war enters its third year, Sudan’s two warring factions remain locked in a deadly power struggle. Death toll estimates vary widely, with the former U.S.

Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in extremism and threats to democracies around the globe and at home.

By the first standard of civil wars, Mexico hit the mark years ago, because whatever war is playing out in Mexico is taking lives. Since 2006, there have been over 360,000 homicides reported in ...

On a historic day in United States history, Barbara F. Walter '86, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the University of California, San Diego and author of New York Times bestseller How ...

Conflict, famine and a great-power competition are colliding in the Horn of Africa, creating enormous instability. The growing prospect of overlapping civil wars and conflicts between nations in ...