Civil wars insecurity and intervention assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties the mixed record of partial successes failures and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices. Civil wars insecurity and intervention assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties the mixed record of partial successes failures and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices. Civil wars insecurity and intervention assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make. Civil wars insecurity and intervention edited by barbara f walter and jack snyder publication library call number u240 c584 1999 since the end of the cold war a series of costly civil wars many of them ethnic conflicts have dominated the international security agenda this volume offers a detailed examination of four recent