Rejecting arguments about conflicting economic or ethnic issues being the dominant factors, this text proposes that it has been political divisions that have instigated wars in Rhodesia and Lebanon. The author also demonstrates the problems that face foreign nations when trying to resolve local conflicts.
Matthew Preston is a Senior Research Officer in the Global Issues Research Group of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Prior to that he taught International Relations at Exeter and St Catherine's Colleges, Oxford.
"A cogent, precise and well-argued analysis of war terminations in Rhodesia and Lebanon - a very impressive piece of work. The use of evidence is very careful and the argument very clear." - David Keen, Reader in Complex Emergencies, London School of Economics; "An excellent piece of work, which should find a wide readership not only in the disciplines of international relations and contemporay history, but also African and Middle Eastern area studies" - Philip Robins, St Antony's College, Oxford" AFRICAN HISTORY '..deftly constructs layered narratives that capture the complexity of civil wars without losing analytical focus.'
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