--- title: Barbara F. Walter | TIME description: Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them canonical: https://time.com/author/barbara-f-walter/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/barbara-f-walter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Barbara F. Walter ## Barbara F. Walter Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of [How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624156/how-civil-wars-start-by-barbara-f-walter/) ## Barbara F. Walter *  Jan 24, 2022 ### [Trump Could Still Lead the U.S. to Civil War](https://time.com/6141468/trump-us-civil-war/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/barbara-f-walter/","name":"Barbara F. Walter"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/barbara-f-walter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/barbara-f-walter/"},"name":"Barbara F. Walter","jobTitle":null,"description":"Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them","url":"https://time.com/author/barbara-f-walter/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```