Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics

Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics
Author: Joseph Lepgold
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1438410565

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.

Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics

Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics
Author: Joseph Lepgold
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791438435

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. "This is an excellent collection. The material is of a uniformly high quality along three dimensions: good writing, identification of important empirical problems relating to collective security and peacekeeping (or, using the term the volume authors prefer, collective conflict management), and good, logical reasoning.

Collective Security in a Changing World

Collective Security in a Changing World
Author: Thomas George Weiss
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1993
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781555875558

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

Regional Conflict Management

Regional Conflict Management
Author: Paul F. Diehl
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2003-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0742568822

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.

The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide

The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide
Author: Samuel Totten
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1389
Release: 2008-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135925909

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.

International Conflict Mediation

International Conflict Mediation
Author: Jacob Bercovitch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134054157

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.

The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95

The United Nations and peacekeeping, 1988–95
Author: Chen Kertcher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526100347

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.

Leashing the Dogs of War

Leashing the Dogs of War
Author: Chester A. Crocker
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781929223961

The definitive volume on the sources of contemporary conflict and the array of possible responses to it.

Critical Reflections on Security and Change

Critical Reflections on Security and Change
Author: Stuart Croft
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136328041

The contributors reflect critically on security studies since the 1980s. They conclude that analysts and policy-makers have not been able to respond well to the changes that have occurred and that they must revise their approach if they are to meet the challenges of the future.

Beyond UN Subcontracting

Beyond UN Subcontracting
Author: Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349262633

Beyond UN Subcontracting sheds light, through a series of post-Cold War case studies, on whether one United Nations' efforts both to devolve responsibility for security to regional institutions and the delivery of some of their services to international nongovernmental organisations are a step toward or away from better global governance. The cases are designed to explore patterns of interaction and to provide lessons for the future.