Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
How do dissent and disagreement tip over into civil war? And is peace, when it comes, ever absolute?
‘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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