Negotiating Civil War has sought to provide a rounded, nuanced, portrait of the emergence of the Civil War Regime, leveraging the explanatory capacity of carefully selected theoretical propositions derived from mainstream IR research traditions. The following discussion assesses the extent to which this endeavour has been successful, and identifies wider lessons that can be derived. The first section sets out the key findings from the case studies and the examination overall. The second section sets Negotiating Civil War in the context of related bodies of research and considers scholarly and practical implications. The final section draws the volume to a close.