The Understanding and Management of Global Violence New Approaches to Theory and Research on Protracted Conflict

by Starr, Harvey

• ISBN13: 9780312217518
• ISBN10: 031221751X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

As scholars attempt to understand the global politics of the post-Cold War system, they must attend not only to changing structures of global order, but to the changing patterns of international, transnational, and domestic behavior. A study of conflict needs to focus on the investigation of conflict processes that cut across levels of analysis. This book approaches social conflict through the study of protracted conflict. As developed by Edward Azar, "protracted conflict" is long-term, ongoing conflict which permeates all aspects of society. It is explicitly linked to two-level analyses, the analysis of crisis, the nature of identity groups, and enduring rivalries. These essays bring new thinking to the notion of protracted conflict, focusing on Israel, the Palestinians, and Lebanon; the Philippines and Nicaragua; Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan; and Northern Ireland.

Author Biography

Harvey Starr is Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs at the University of South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Protracted Conflict Approach to the Study of Social Conflict	1	(22)
Harvey Starr
Part I Theoretical Considerations
Protracted International Conflict: Ten Propositions	23	(12)
Edward E. Azar
Conceptualizing Protracted Conflict and Protracted Conflict Management	35	(34)
Gil Friedman
Conceptualizing and Identifying Crisis in Protracted Social Conflict	69	(36)
G. Dale Thomas
Who Participates in Protracted Conflicts and Why? Rediscovering the Group and Its Needs	105	(26)
Samuel Peleg
Part II Empirical Investigation
Early Warning of Conflict in Southern Lebanon Using Hidden Markov Models	131	(32)
Philip A. Schrodt
Protracted Conflict, Intervention, and Revolution: Case Studies of Nicaragua and the Philippines	163	(38)
Marc V. Simon
Yielding Ground: Loss and Conflict Escalation in Sri Lankan Protracted Social Conflict	201	(24)
Michael Kuchinsky
Protracted Conflict and Enduring Rivalry: India, Pakistan, and the Dynamics of Stalemate over Kashmir	225	(30)
Sangeeta Sharma
Contributors	255	(2)
Index	257