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This paper examines civil violence and the effects of neighboring countries. It looks at the mechanisms which link organized civil violence, the involvement of groups in such violence having putative ethnic kin in a neighboring country and the choice by the executive powers in kin countries to escalate the neighboring civil violence by intervening militarily in support of a conflict party. The author takes account of the socially constructed nature of ethnic identity and the extent to which the politicization of ethnic identity is endogenous to organized political violence.