Understanding Conflict
Why Conflict
Explanations from International Relations Theory
Violence and Human Nature
A Note about Language
The Age of Local Conflict: A Short History
The Cold War Backdrop
The Age of Small Wars
Arms and Conflict
The New World Disorder
Good News
Bad News
The Conflict Map: Continuity and Change
Thinking about the Future
The Emerging Conflict Agenda
Managing Conflict
Heading Off Conflicts before They Happen: Early Warning and Preventive Diplomacy
First Best: Dispute Settlement and Conflict Resolution
Three Strategies of Preventive Diplomacy
Early Warning
The Psychological Barriers to Conflict Prevention
Policing the Global Neighborhood: Who Does What
The United Nations as Conflict Manager
The Regional Approach: A Possible Solution
The Quest for Security: Ideals and Reality
Enforcement in an Imperfect Community
Collective Security against Aggression
Other International Crimes and Misdemeanors
A Strategy for the Future
Redefining U.S
Interests
Fragments of Community: A Realistic Prescription
Analyzing Conflict
The Anatomy of Conflict: Toward a Theory of Conflict Prevention
The Dynamics of Conflict
Implications of Theory
Some Policy Inferences from Theory
A Suggestive Experiment
Theory into Practice: The Evolution of CASCON
The U.S
Government Flirts with CASCON
The United Nations Takes the Plunge
CASCON in the University
Renewed Professional Interest
CASCON as a Lecture Tool and "Lab" Exercise
Conflict Analysis with CASCON
What Kinds of Questions Can CASCON Help Answer? What Does CASCON Do? A Bureaucratic Scenario
Structuring Conflict History for CASCON Analysis
Identifying Phases
Coding Factors
Historical Analogy
Finding Patterns in CASCON
Profile Case PRO1
Profile Case PRO2
Profile Case PRO3
Implications for Conflict Management
The CASCON User''s Guide
Read This First
Starting a CASCON Session
Looking at the Database: Cases
Making User Case Groups
Looking at the Database: Factors
Making User Factor Groups
Comparing Cases
Creating and Revising User Cases
Using Profile Cases
Printing
Some Samples of Analysis with CASCON
A Selective Annotated Bibliography on Conflict
Index
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