Ethnic politics and state power in Africa: the logic of the coup-civil war trap

Introduction

Part I. Puzzle and theory. A meso-level approach to the study of civil war ; Theories of ethno-political exclusion ; The strategic logic of war in Africa

Part II. Theory-building case study. Political networks, brokerage and cooperative counterinsurgency : civil war averted in Darfur ; The strategic logic of ethno-political exclusion : the breakdown of Sudan's Islamic movement ; Political exclusion and civil war : the outbreak of the Darfur Civil War

Part III. Testing the argument. Empirical analysis of the coup-civil war trap ; A model-testing case : explaining Africa's Great War

Part IV. Extensions. The strategic logic of peace in Africa ; Conclusion

Appendix 1: A note on the book's qualitative methods

Appendix 2: Data variable dictionary

Appendix 3: Data on ethnic transfers of power and ethnicity of coup conspirators and insurgents.