Leashing the Dogs of War : Conflict Management in a Divided World
by Crocker, Chester A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher(s): United States Inst of Peace Pr
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Summary
The definitive volume on the sources of contemporary conflict and the array of possible responses to it.
Table of Contents
| Leashing the dogs of war | p. 3 |
| International sources of interstate and intrastate war | p. 17 |
| New global dangers | p. 39 |
| Arms acquisition and violence : are weapons or people the cause of conflict? | p. 53 |
| Terrorism and global security | p. 67 |
| The challenge of weak, failing, and collapsed states | p. 83 |
| State making, state breaking, and state failure | p. 95 |
| Power, social violence, and civil wars | p. 115 |
| Minorities, Nationalists, and Islamists : managing communal conflict in the twenty-first century | p. 131 |
| Turbulent transitions : why emerging democracies go to war | p. 161 |
| Environmental change, security, and conflict | p. 177 |
| Economic causes of civil conflict and their implications for policy | p. 197 |
| Motivations for conflict: groups and individuals | p. 219 |
| Using force for peace in an age of terror | p. 245 |
| Limits on the use of force | p. 265 |
| Yet again : humanitarian intervention and the challenges of "never again" | p. 277 |
| Coercive diplomacy | p. 299 |
| Expanding global military capacity to save lives with force | p. 319 |
| Economic sanctions and international peace and security | p. 335 |
| The place of grand strategy, statecraft, and power in conflict management | p. 355 |
| A framework for success : international intervention in societies emerging from conflict | p. 369 |
| The place of soft power in state-based conflict management | p. 389 |
| The rule of law in conflict management | p. 401 |
| Rethinking the "War on Terror" : new approaches to conflict prevention and management in the post-9/11 world | p. 425 |
| International mediation | p. 437 |
| Contemporary conflict resolution applications | p. 455 |
| The power of nonofficial actors in conflict management | p. 477 |
| The United Nations and conflict management: relevant or irrelevant? | p. 497 |
| Successes and challenges in conflict management | p. 521 |
| New roles for regional organizations | p. 535 |
| Capacities and limits of NGOs as Conflict managers | p. 553 |
| War and law : the dilemmas of international law and coercive enforcement | p. 583 |
| Is democracy the answer? | p. 603 |
| Is stability the answer? | p. 619 |
| Economic factors in civil wars : policy considerations | p. 631 |
| Sharing sovereignty : new institutions for collapsed and failing states | p. 652 |
| Intervention and the nation-building debate | p. 679 |
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