Explores how governance structures - domestic political institutions, international peacekeeping efforts, armed interventions by other states - and natural resources affect the onset, dynamics and the termination of civil wars.

Part 1 1. Introduction 2. Civil Conflict in the Contemporary World Part 2 3. Insights from Macro Studies of the Risk of Civil War 4. Civil War and Interstate Disputes 5. Robin Hood or Al Capone? Natural Resources and Conflict in India’s Naxalite Insurgency 6. Government Restructuring and Resources in the Face of Ethno-Nationalist Insurgency in the Basque Country (1979-2004) 7. Political Marginalization and Economic Exclusion in the Making of Insurgencies in Sudan 8. Military Intervention, Democratization, and Post-Conflict Political Stability Part 3 9. Enforcing Alone: Collective Action in Ethnic Conflicts Settlement 10. From Bullets to Ballots: Using the People as Arbitrators to Settle Civil Wars 11. Democracy after War: Causes and Consequences of the 1948 Civil War in Costa Rica 12. Do Democracies Deliver the Deals? The Threat of Mediation Withdrawal in Internal Conflicts 13. Rebels, Resolve, and Resolution. Conflict in the Shadow of Settlement Part 4 14. Conclusion