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.

‘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)

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