Collective Conflict Management And Changing World Politics

Author : Joseph Lepgold
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438442
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics written by Joseph Lepgold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades the debate over collective security -- the idea that alliances are problematic and that all nations should pledge to come to the aid of any nation that is a victim of aggression -- has been polarized. Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics probes the international and domestic conditions under which collective security tends to work or not, and questions if the end of the Cold War makes success more or less likely than before. The contributors conclude that collective conflict management is possible under specific situations, as they enumerate various domestic and international requisites that circumscribe such possibilities.

Author : Thomas George Weiss
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555875558
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Security in a Changing World written by Thomas George Weiss and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study commissioned by the World Peace Foundation and the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University. Updates a similar work published in 1991, to account for the increased strength of the United Nations as apparent in the war against Iraq, and the official demise of the Soviet Union. Primarily recommends how the US government can work with other governments to keep restless natives in line. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anna J. Borgeryd
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581120435
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Intercollective Conflict written by Anna J. Borgeryd and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the state system measure up to today's realitites when it comes to managing conflict? To what extent are efforts to manage conflict successful, and for whom? Prevailing structures designed to deal with conflict between collectives -- sovereign states supported by militaries, military industry, and the United Nations -- operate mainly on principles that are hundreds of years old. Conditions for conflict and its management have changed radically since this state system was constructed. There is a risk that institutional inertia produces growing disparity between real-world problems and the institutions that are supposed to manage them. Realism and legalism are found to form a double idological support for the state system. The study compares the state system's realist and legalist premises to different cases of post cold war intercollective conflict: the 1990-91 Gulf War, the 1990-95 break-up of Yugoslavia, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. These cases present important challenges to the pravailing system's premises -- mismatches between idea and reality that are clearly connected to failures in conflict management. In addition, findings suggest that the state system not only fails to deal with important aspects of modern-day conflict, but that it increasingly produces problems that it cannot manage. This suggests that the prevailing state system is not in harmony with crucial conflict-related aspects of global impact, indicating a serious systemic problem.

Author : Paul F. Diehl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742568822
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Conflict Management written by Paul F. Diehl and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, the international security environment has shifted radically. Leading states no longer play as great a role in regional conflicts, and thus a new opportunity for regional conflict management has opened. This collection of original essays is one of the first to examine the implications and efficacy of regional conflict management in the new world order. The editors' general overview provides a framework for analyzing regional conflict management efforts and the kinds of threats faced by actors in different regions of the world. Case studies from every major world region then place these factors into specific regional contexts and address a variety of challenges. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars from around the world, Regional Conflict Management provides key lessons for understanding conflict management over the globe.

Author : Samuel Totten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135925909
Total Pages : 1389 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide written by Samuel Totten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 1389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is comprised of over 2,300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise. Samuel Totten brings together in one comprehensive collection the research and findings in various fields, such as political science, sociology, history, and psychology, to enable specialists in genocide studies, peace studies, and conflict resolution to benefit from the insights of a diverse range of scholars and foster an understanding of how the various components of genocide studies connect. Among the topics included are: key conventions, international treaties, and covenants genocide early warning signals and forecasting risk data bases sanctions peacekeeping missions conflict resolution the International Criminal Court realpolitik vis-à-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention key non-governmental agencies key governmental and UN bodies working on these important issues. In addition to the annotations, Totten frames the bibliography with a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of prevention and intervention of genocide, raising a host of critical issues regarding the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of managing these conflicts.

Author : Jacob Bercovitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134054157
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Conflict Mediation written by Jacob Bercovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation. International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and important conflict resolution methods of the early 21st century. This book argues that traditional approaches to mediation have been inadequate, and that in order to really understand how the process of international mediation works, studies need to operate within an explicit theoretical framework, adopt systematic empirical approaches and use a diversity of methods to identify critical interactions, contexts and relationships. This volume captures recent important changes in the field of international conflict mediation, and includes essays by leading scholars on a variety of critical aspects of conflict management, using state of the art analytical tools and up to date data. This book will of great interest to scholars of peace and conflict studies, methods in social science, and of International Relations in general.

Author : Chen Kertcher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526100347
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95 written by Chen Kertcher and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using more than 600 UN documents that analyse the discussions in the UN Security Council, General Assembly and Secretariat, The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988-95 presents innovative explanations on how after the Cold War UN peacekeeping operations became the dominant response to conflicts around the globe. This study offers a vivid description of these changes through the analysis of the evolution in the concept and practice of United Nations peacekeeping operations from 1988 to 1995. The research is anchored primarily in United Nations documents, which were produced following the diplomatic discussions that took place in the General Assembly, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat on the subject of peacekeeping in general and in the cases of Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia and Somalia in particular. These large and complex operations were the testing ground for the new roles of peacekeeping in democratisation, humanitarian aid, resettlement of refugees, demobilisation of armed forces, economic development and advancement of good government.

Author : Barry H. Steiner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485633
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Preventive Diplomacy written by Barry H. Steiner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful nations have often assumed a leadership role in international relations by becoming involved in ethnic conflict arising within small states. Recently however, their willingness to do so, at least unilaterally, has diminished. This study focuses on why and how powerful nations have acted together to dampen or forestall the expansion of small state conflicts while limiting potential risks to themselves. Employing a case-study method, Barry H. Steiner distinguishes between two types of collective preventive diplomacy, the insulationist and the interventionist. In the former, powerful nations are motivated to contain small power conflict in order to preserve their relations with other powerful nations. In the latter, they act to settle conflict between the small power antagonists themselves.

Author : Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317377893
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Reality in International Politics written by Jonathan Wilkenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent generations have experienced dramatic improvements in the quality of human life across the globe. Wars between states are fought less frequently and are less lethal. Food is more plentiful and more easily accessed. In most parts of the world, birthrates are down and life expectancy up. Significantly fewer people live in extreme poverty, relative to the overall population. Statistics would argue that the human race has never before flourished as it has in this moment. And yet, even with this progress, we face a number of seemingly intractable challenges to the welfare of both states and individuals, including: Governmental instability undermining the lives of citizens, both within and beyond their borders; Persistent and recurring intrastate conflict due to ineffective conflict management strategies; Marginally successful development efforts and growing income inequality, both within and between nations, as a result of uncoordinated and ineffective global development strategies; Internecine conflict in multiethnic societies, manifested by exclusion, discrimination, and ultimately violence, the inevitable consequence of an insufficient focus on managing the inherent tensions in diverse societies; Global climate change with the possibility of catastrophic long-term consequences, following an inability to effectively come to terms with and respond to the impact of human activity on our environment. These challenges require a newly collaborative, intentional, and systematic approach. This book offers a blueprint for how to get there, calling for increased leadership responsibility, clarity of mission, and empowerment of states and individuals. It is designed to transform lofty but often vague agendas into concrete, measurable progress. It believes in the capacity of humanity to rise to the occasion, to come together to address these increasingly critical global problems, and offers one way forward.

Author : Chester A. Crocker
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 9781929223961
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leashing the Dogs of War written by Chester A. Crocker and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive volume on the sources of contemporary conflict and the array of possible responses to it.