‘How Civil Wars Start’ by Barbara F. Walter: Democracy In Danger
A book review
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4 min readApr 19, 2022
The subtitle to this book, “And How To Stop Them,” immediately informs readers that the author perceives civil wars worldwide as a problem in the present and the future.
The author builds her case by explaining that both autocracies and healthy democracies are largely immune from civil war; the countries in…