Is Partition Really the Only Hope? Reconciling Contradictory Findings About Ethnic Civil Wars

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments The original version of this article was written in 1997. An initially revised version was presented at the 96th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. August 31–September 3, 2000. That version has been further substantially revised for publication in the current special issue of the journal Security Studies on "Living Together After Ethnic Killing." The author gratefully acknowledges past financial support from the mit Department of Political Science, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Harvard-mit MacArthur Transnational Security Fellowship, the Brookings Institution, and the Federation of American Scientists. The…