Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
How do dissent and disagreement tip over into civil war? And is peace, when it comes, ever absolute?
![‘Civil War’, by Édouard Manet, depicting the aftermath of the Paris Commune, c. 1871-73. Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain. ‘Civil War’, by Édouard Manet, depicting the aftermath of the Paris Commune, c. 1871-73. Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain.](/sites/default/files/2024-08/civil_war_history_today.jpg)
‘The Romans got it right: civil war breeds civil war’
David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Yale University Press, 2018)