<p><b><i>Sunday Times</i> Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 ¿ <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br>¿ WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD ¿ BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>Financial Times, The Times</i>, <i>Esquire, Prospect</i></b><br><br><b>''When one of the world''s leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book'' Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of <i>How Democracies Die</i></b><br><br><b>Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.</b><br><br>We are now living in the world''s greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, major civil wars are now being fought in countries including Iraq, Syria and Libya, and smaller civil wars are being fought in India and Malaysia. Even countries we thought could never experience another civil war - such as the USA, Sweden and Ireland - are showing signs