Civil Wars in Global History since 1917: Concepts and Entanglements’

Charalampos Minasidis and Robert Gerwarth
Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming 2027)

Articles:

  1. Introduction by Charalampos Minasidis and Robert Gerwarth
  2. Laura Robson (Yale University), “What’s in a name? “Civil war” in the Europe-Middle East nexus”
  3. Burak Sayim (University of Basel), “Comintern and its International Civil War: Middle East, Europe, and Transregional Revolutions”
  4. Nathan Grau (Harvard University), “Protecting the Cochinchinese Mosaic: Federalism, Ethnic Difference, and Civil War in Southern Vietnam, 1945-1947”
  5. Thanasis D. Sfikas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Using, Ignoring (and Provoking) Civil Wars: George F. Kennan on Greece, China (and, if need be, Italy)”
  6. Simon Lam (Oxford University), “The ‘Neutrality’ of Faith and Aid: The Quaker Experience in the Greek and Chinese Civil Wars”
  7. Norman Joshua (Stanford University), “From Revolution to Civil War(s)?: Post-Revolutionary Armed Violence in Indonesia, 1950-1965”
  8. Benjamin Claude Brower (The University of Texas at Austin), “Sovereignty, Law, and Civil War: The Case of Algeria, 1954-62”
  9. Miles Larmer (University of Florida), “Fighting for which nation?:  Historicising civil conflict in mid-twentieth century Sub-Saharan Africa”
  10. Madga Fytili (Complutense University of Madrid and Hellenic Open University), “Revolution Beyond Frontiers: Basque Radical Internationalism and the Sandinista Cause (1978–1990)”
  11. Vasken Markarian (Texas Historical Commission), “Militarization of Daily Life: Genocide and the Social and Cultural Pillars of Indigenous Life in 1980s Guatemala”