Civil Wars : what is wrong with History?
Rodrigo, Javier 1977- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Alegre Lorenz, David 1988- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Imprint:	SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023
Abstract:	Civil wars constitute an element without which the history of humanity is incomprehensible. Since 1917, they alone claimed some 20 million lives and displaced 67 million people, standing alone as the undisputed primary form of armed conflict worldwide since the end of the Second World War. Their definition is crucial to understand them and to place them within intrastate and transnational policies. However, in its definition, the historical dimension has been systematically undervalued. In this paper, we address both a history of the concept and the elements that, in our opinion, help defining civil wars in historical terms.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Civil Wars ; Comparative history ; Warfare ; Mass violence ; Historiography
Published in:	War in History, september 2023, ISSN 1477-0385

DOI: 10.1177/09683445231195290

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