US 'Closer to Civil War Than Any of Us Would Like to Believe': Book
In her new book, "How Civil Wars Start," Barbara F. Walter writes that the US exhibits the key warning signs that precede armed conflict.
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In her new book, "How Civil Wars Start," Barbara F. Walter writes that the US exhibits the key warning signs that precede armed conflict.
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Is America headed for a civil war? Barbara Walter says many of the ingredients-weak institutions, once dominant group resentment, violent extremism - are all present..
Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who've lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn't see it coming. "They're all surprised," she said. "Even when, to somebody who studies it, it's obvious years beforehand."