Leashing the Dogs of War : Conflict Management in a Divided World

by Crocker, Chester A.

• ISBN13: 9781929223961
• ISBN10: 192922396X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr

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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