Civil War

A civil war is a prolonged armed conflict between groups that inhabit the same state. Typical civil wars are fought to replace a government or gain concessions from the government. In some cases, the government is not a party to the conflict.

List of Civil Wars

• Seventeenth Century
  • English Civil War
• Nineteenth Century
  • American Civil War
• Twentieth Century
  • Russian Civil War
  • Spanish Civil War

Bibliography

• Malanczuk, Peter. Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law, 7th ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.