CBH TALK - How Civil Wars Start: A Conversation with Barbara F. Walter
Barbara F. Walter has spent thirty years studying civil wars around the world. Now she’s become increasingly worried about what’s happening at home. Her new book, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and analyzes the likelihood of a second civil war in the United States. What form would this take on our home soil? Are the warning signs under our noses today? And what can we do to impact history’s course? Join Walter for this CBH Talk moderated by Tasha Philpot.
Participants
Barbara F. Walter is the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Walter helps to run the award-winning blog Political Violence at a Glance and has written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, and Foreign Affairs.
Photo by Debora Cartwright
Tasha Philpot is a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also affiliated with the Center for African and African American Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis, and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Professor Philpot specializes in American Politics, with particular interests in African-American Politics, Political Psychology, Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Political Parties. She has also authored three books, the most recent of which is Conservative But Not Republican: The Paradox of Party Identification and Ideology among African Americans.
