Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics

by Lepgold, Joseph; Weiss, Thomas G.

• ISBN13: 9780791438442
• ISBN10: 0791438449
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Collective Conflict Management: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics: An Overview	p. 3
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Collective Security: The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Debates about Collective Conflict Management	p. 31
Collective Conflict Management: Military Operations and Political Interests
NATO's Post-Cold War Conflict Management Role	p. 57
The Limits of Peacekeeping, Spheres of Influence, and the Future of the United Nations	p. 83
Constraints on Adaptation in the American Military to Collective Conflict Management Missions	p. 105
Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti: What Went Right, What Went Wrong?	p. 133
Collective Conflict Management: The Humanitarian Impulse
Changing Norms of Sovereignty and Multilateral Intervention	p. 159
Military Intervention and the Organization of International Politics	p. 181
Collective Humanitarian Conflict Management: More or Less than the Millennium?	p. 205
About the Authors	p. 235
Index	p. 237
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