How Civil Wars Start with Barbara F. Walter

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Barbara F. Walter, one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism who is an Author and Professor of International Affairs at UC San Diego. They discuss what sorts of societal/political factors contribute to the dangerous likelihood of civil war, whether or not we’re seeing any of those factors in the United States, and what must be done to restore our democracy which is currently headed in the wrong direction. For more on this, be sure to pick up Barbara’s latest book, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them at your local bookseller.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Before we get started, I just want to encourage everyone here. Watch the select
0:05.8	committee on January 6th hearings. I think it is an important historical record of one of the
0:12.0	worst days in our country's history. And I think it's important that you are able to see for yourselves
0:17.2	just what happened on that day. Who was responsible and that you can share that information with
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0:34.1	with the show.
0:43.0	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Marie Gailan. Today, I'm joined by Barbara F. Walter,
0:49.7	author and professor of international affairs at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the
0:54.3	University of California, San Diego. She's one of the leading experts on civil wars, political
0:59.8	violence and terrorism. And as a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent
1:04.6	live guest on CNN and an active consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the
1:09.6	Departments of Defense and State. Barbara's also written numerous books, including her latest,
1:14.2	How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them Gang. I ran through two highlighters on this book
1:19.7	by this book at your local bookseller or Amazon. Today, she is coming to us from San Diego,
1:25.5	California. Barbara, welcome. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:29.9	So, you know, I want to talk about the book. But before we do that, give us a little bit about
1:35.2	how you got into this particular field because a lot of folks are experts on foreign affairs.
1:42.0	But, you know, civil wars as Americans, we tend to focus on our own civil war. But we don't really
1:47.7	think about the things that go into them, especially I'd say in the sort of post-World War II,
1:54.1	almost century. So, tell us how you got into this. So, I started studying civil wars around the
1:59.6	world, not the American Civil War, but all the ones that were happening outside the United States
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