Handbook of War Studies III is a follow-up to Handbook of War Studies I (1993) and II (2000). This new volume collects original work from leading international relations scholars on domestic strife, ethnic conflict, genocide, and other timely topics. Special attention is given to civil war, which has become one of the dominant forms---if not the dominant form---of conflict in the world today.Contributors: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University, and Hoover Institution, Stanford UniversityNils Petter Gleditsch, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), TrondheimHåvard Hegre, University of Oslo, and International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)Erin K. Jenne, Central European University, BudapestMark Irving Lichbach, University of MarylandRoy Licklider, Rutgers University, New BrunswickT. David Mason, University of North TexasRose McDermott, Cornell UniversityStephen Saideman, McGill UniversityHåvard Strand, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)Monica Duffy Toft, Harvard UniversityManus I. Midlarsky is the Moses and Annuta Back Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the founding past president of the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association and a past vice president of the International Studies Association.