Contents

  1. About the authors
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. 1 Introduction: social movements in civil wars
  4. 2 Causal mechanisms in civil wars: a sensitizing map
  5. 3 Beyond Syria: civil society in failed episodes of democratization
  6. 4 The failure of the Libyan political transition and the descent into civil war
  7. 5 Yemen's failed transition: from peaceful protests to war of 'all against all'
  8. 6 Yugoslavia: from social movement to state movement to civil war
  9. 7 Conclusion: social movements, democratization, and civil wars
  10. Index