This collection analyses a number of case studies showing how democracies have won small wars.

Part 1 democracies and small wars in comparative perspective: western democracies in low intensity conflict - some postmodern aspects, Avi Kober; why do they quarrel? civil-military tensions in LIC situations, Stuart A. Cohen; democracies, limited war and psychological operations, Ron Schleifer; trends in low intensity ethnic conflict in democratic states in the post-Cold War era - a large N study, Jonathan Fox. Part 2 Case studies: the American way of war in the 21st century, Thomas G. Mahnken; the Indian way in counterinsurgency, Sankaran Kalyanaraman; winning a low intensity conflict - drawing lessons from the Turkish case, Umit Ozdag and Ersel Aydinli; Greek democracy on trial - from insurgency to civil war, 1943-49, Andre Gerolymatos; fatal choices - Israel's policy of targeted killing, Steven R. David; exploiting democracy - the IRA's tactical cease-fire, Jonathan Stevenson; between bullets and ballots - the Palestinians and Israeli democracy, Hillel Frisch.