Most of the wars of the 1990s have been complex and bloody internal conflicts driven to a significant degree by nationalism and ethnic animosity. This book looks at how nationalism has affected these wars, and at ways to combat the problem.

The causes of internal conflict : an overview / Michael E. Brown -- Hypotheses on nationalism and war / Stephen Van Evera -- Nationalism and the marketplace of ideas / Jack Snyder and Karen Ballentine -- The banality of "ethnic war" / John Mueller -- Containing fear : the origins and management of ethnic conflict / David Lake and Donald Rothchild -- Internal conflict and international action : an overview / Michael E. Brown and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat -- Military responses to refugee disasters / Barry Posen -- Kosovo and the great air power debate / Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman -- Lessons of Liberia : ECOMOG and regional peacekeeping / Herbert Howe -- Peacebuilding and the limits of liberal internationalism / Roland Paris -- Refugee flows as grounds for international action / Gil Loescher and Alan Dowty -- Spoiler problems in peace processes / Stephen John Stedman -- Designing transitions from civil war : demobilization, democratization and commitments to peace / Barbara F. Walter -- Possible and impossible solutions to ethnic civil war / Chaim Kaufmann.