Les régions du globe composées d'Etats stables et légitimes offrent un cadre propice à la paix: celles qui, à l'inverse, sont composées d'Etats de type contraire favorisent la guerre civile. Ces Etats, faibles ou défaillants, manquent de légitimité. / Prenant à partie l'interprétation dite 'réaliste' des conflits armés, l'article montre que la cause principale des guerres de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle tient à l'état des Etats créés après 1945. Regions populated by strong states, defined in terms of legitimacy, are arenas of peace, and regions of weak and failed states are a prime location of war. It is not the security dilemma nor the international system, but the composition of state legitimacy and the characteristic of weak, strong, and failed states which explain war today.
Regional and temporal variations in the topography of war make suspect realist claims of state similarity and systemic explanations of war. Against the tenets of realist literature, the article argues that the main source of war in the last half-century is internally-derived, and resides in the nature of post-1945 states. What is the link between gender equality and civil war This paper reports on a study measuring gender inequality against the occurrence of intrastate conflict.
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