Expert on Civil Wars Says the Conflict in Iraq is Probably Far from Over
Professor Barbara Walter Interviewed on KPBS Radio
10/10/2007
Tom Fudge,
KPBS Radio
Professor Barbara Walter discusses the situation in Iraq
in this interview with Tom Fudge on KPBS Radio's These Days program. Walter is an Associate Professor of Political Science at IR/PS and an authority on international security.
EXCERPT:
Tom Fudge: There are many words we use to describe the situation in Iraq: conflict, insurgency, civil unrest, ethnic battle. How about this one: civil war. It's an expression that supporters of America's intervention in Iraq like to avoid because it's hard to accept the fact that the United States is stuck in a civil war that it helped to create.
In fact, some of the folks who study civil war say Iraq bears all of the trademarks of the type. Barbara Walter, a political scientist at UCSD, is definitely a student of civil war. She's written three books on the subject. Recently she was in Washington to speak to government officials about what she's learned.
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