# Is the US headed towards another civil war?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2023
- Speaker: Barbara F. Walter
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Society and politics, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/barbara_f_walter_is_the_us_headed_towards_another_civil_war)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in extremism and threats to democracies around the globe -- and paints an unsettling picture of the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.

## Lectures

1. [Is the US headed towards another civil war?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/barbara_f_walter_is_the_us_headed_towards_another_civil_war/ecd7298f87dc), 13 min (TED's player)