Often recommended as a means of ending intractable civil wars, power-sharing may in fact be least likely to work when it is most needed.
About the Author
Ian S. Spears is assistant professor of political science at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He is currently coediting a volume on the phenomenon of “states-within-states” in the developing world.
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