International Intervention in Local Conflicts Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution Since the Cold War

by Rabi, Uzi

• ISBN13: 9781848853188
• ISBN10: 1848853181
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies

Summary

The changes in the global balance of power that emerged following the Cold War have had far-reaching implications for the conduct, management and resolution of local conflicts. They have necessitated a fresh examination of the rules and norms of international crisis management and conflict resolution at a global level. This book provides analyses of international intervention in local conflicts including those in Cambodia, Somalia, Yugoslavia, the Western Balkans and Northern Ireland. Special attention is devoted to American and European involvement in Middle East conflicts, as well as the unique role of regional and local actors in determining their course. This will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international relations and conflict resolution.

Author Biography

Uzi Rabi is Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.

Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical Framework * From Bipolar to Unipolar Order: System Structure and Conflict Resolution -- Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto * Part II: The International Role in Conflict Resolutions * Same Agenda, Different Results: The UN interventions in Cambodia and Somalia after the Cold War -- Chen Kercher, Tel Aviv University * External Mediation and Internal Ownership - The Belfast and St. Andrews Agreements Compared -- Adrian Guelke, Queen's University, Belfast* International Engagement and the Yugoslav War of Dissolution -- James Gow, King's College, London * The Reactive Crisis Management of the European Union in the Western Balkans: Policy Objectives, Capabilities and Effectiveness -- Stefan Wolff and Annemarie Peen Rodt, University of Nottingham * Part III: American and European Experiences in the Middle East * American Middle East Strategy and the Bush Legacy -- Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University * Reflections on French Experiences in the Middle East -- Jean-Pierre Filiu, Sciences Politic, Paris * The Reagan-Bush Administrations and the Middle East: Institutional and Bureaucratic Rivalries -- Robert David Johnson, Brooklyn College * The EU and Its Efforts to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Georg Simonis, Fern Universitat, Hagen * Part IV: The Tangled Web of Regional Conflict * Military Intervention and Democratization: Global Order and the Radical Islamist Challenge to Lebanon -- Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University * The Arab-Iranian Cold War: Towards a Changing Middle East -- Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University * Diversified Local Powers' Mediation: Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Roles in Recent Stages of the Israeli-Arab Peace Process (Joseph Kostiner, Tel Aviv University * Lost Faith, Forfeited Trust; Afghan Responses to Post 9/11 International Intervention in Statebuilding and Insurgency -- Marvin G. Weinbaum, Middle East Institute, Washington. D.C. * Conclusion by Rajan Menon, Lehigh University