Introduction: understanding rebellion. -- Psychological factors in political violence. -- War, revolution, and the growth of the coercive state. -- On the political consequences of scarcity and economic decline. -- Peoples against states: ethnopolitical conflict and the changing world system. -- Minorities, nationalist, and Islamists: explaining communal conflict in the twenty-first century. -- Attaining peace in divided societies: five principles of emerging doctrine. -- On the outcomes of violent conflict. -- Self-determination movements and their outcomes. -- Terrorism in democracies: when it occurs, why it fails. -- Nonviolence in ethnopolitics: strategies for the attainment of group rights and autonomy. -- Explaining political violence and revolution in Africa. -- How Africa's civil wars ended: lessons for prevention? -- The security challenges of Somalia: toward a confederal solution. -- Why men rebel revisited: observations on revolution in contemporary Africa.

1. Rovolutions