Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
02/16/18 • 50 min
David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, puts contemporary conflicts from Afghanistan to Syria into historical perspective and asks why it matters whether we call them "civil wars" instead of insurgencies, rebellions, or even revolutions.
David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, puts contemporary conflicts from Afghanistan to Syria into historical perspective and asks why it matters whether we call them "civil wars" instead of insurgencies, rebellions, or even revolutions.
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