The Costs of Conflict Prevention and Cure in the Global Arena

by Brown, Michael E.; Rosecrance, Richard N.; Blakley, Mike; Nevers, Renée de; Talentino, Andrea Kathryn; Thayer, Bradley

• ISBN13: 9780847688937
• ISBN10: 0847688933
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

When it comes to conflict resolution, is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Leading scholars lay out an analytical and methodological framework for evaluating this question, and case studies on global hotspots from Bosnia to Somalia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and El Salvador (among others) put it to the test.

Author Biography

Mike Blakley is a principal research fellow at the Center for International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department. Michael Brown is associate professor and director of research for the National Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Renee de Nevers is a program officer in arms reduction and security in the Program on Global Security and Sustainability at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Richard Rosecrance is professor of political science and director of the Center for International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles. Andrea Kathryn Talentino is a Sawyer Seminar Fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University. Bradley Thayer is visiting assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Acronyms	xv	(4)
Maps	xix
1 Comparing Costs of Prevention and Costs of Conflict: Toward a New Methodology	1	(24)
Michael E. Brown
Richard N. Rosecrance
Part One: Failed Prevention	25	(106)
2 Bosnia	25	(28)
Andrea Kathryn Talentino
3 Rwanda	53	(22)
Andrea Kathryn Talentino
4 Somalia	75	(16)
Mike Blakley
5 Haiti	91	(18)
Mike Blakley
6 The Persian Gulf	109	(22)
Mike Blakley
Part Two: Initial Prevention	131	(42)
7 Macedonia	131	(16)
Bradley Thayer
8 Slovakia	147	(26)
Renee de Nevers
Part Three: Mid-Course Prevention	173	(48)
9 Cambodia	173	(26)
Andrea Kathryn Talentino
10 El Salvador	199	(22)
Andrea Kathryn Talentino
Part Four: Conclusion	221	(12)
11 The Case for Conflict Prevention	221	(12)
Michael E. Brown
Richard N. Rosecrance
Notes	233	(34)
Index	267	(10)
About the Contributors	277