What makes a country prone to civil war? 

    James Fearon and David Laitin, Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, American Political Science Review, February 2003. 

    Case:  Barbara F. Walter, The New, New Civil Wars, Annual Review, 2017. 
    https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-060415-093921?src=recsys

    Discussion Questions: 

    Since the early 2000s, almost all new civil wars have occurred in Muslim majority countries.  Given existing theories and evidence for why civil wars break out in some countries and not others, why do you believe Muslim countries have been disproportionately affected by civil wars recently? 

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