Part 1. Creating, maintaining, and restoring order. 1. Probing the sources of political orde. p.17.-- 2. Attaining social order in Iraq. p.43.-- 3. Factors impeding the effectiveness of partition in South Asia and Palestine Mandate. p.75.-- 4. The social order of violence in Chicago and stockholm neighborhoods: a comparative inquiry. p.97.-- 5. Traditions of justice in war: the modern debate in historical perspective. p.120.-- 6. Problems and prospects for democratic settlements: South Africa as a model for the middle east and Northem Ireland?. p.139.--Part 2. Challenging, transforming, and destroying order. 7. Civil wars and guerrilla warfare in the contemporary word: toward a joint theory of motivations and opportunities. p.197.-- 8.Clausewitz vindicated ? economics and politics in the Colombian war. p.219.-- 9. Articulating the geo-cultural logic of nationalist insurgency. p.242.-- 10. Which group identities lead to most violence? evidence from India. p.271.-- 11. Order in disorder: a micro-comparative study of genocidal dynamics in Rwanda. p.301.-- 12. Sexual violence during war: toward an understandig of variation. p.321.-- 13. " Military necessity " and the laws of war in imperial Germany. p.352.-- 14. Precoditions of international normative change: implications for order and violence. p. 378.-- 15. Promises and pitfalls of an emerging research program: the microdynamics of civil war. p.397