LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Nations Torn Asunder [Audio]

Speaker(s): Dr Bill Kissane, Anthony Loyd | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor quality audio in this podcast. Since the European Enlightenment scholarly interest in revolutions has greatly dwarfed the interest in civil war, and whilst revolutions have often been glamorized in history, civil war has had almost exclusively negative connotations. But the last two decades have seen a resurgence of interest in civil war amongst the academic community. Has this vindicated the view that civil war is a uniquely destructive form of conflict? Bill Kissane is Associate Professor in Politics in the LSE Department of Government and a member of the Conflict Research Group. He is author of Nations Torn Asunder: the Challenge of Civil War. Anthony Loyd is a roving foreign correspondent for The Times. He began reporting for The Times in Bosnia over twenty years ago. He has since covered conflicts around the world and won four major awards for the newspaper for his coverage from Syria. Denisa Kost