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Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts -- four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. "Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention" is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates.
The contributors view ethnic conflict and internal war through the prism of the concept of the security dilemma -- a situation in which parties with strong incentives to cooperate wind up nonetheless in bloody competition out of distrust of the opponent. "Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention" assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices.
This volume is a must for anyone interested in the management of ethnic conflicts as it does a good job of highlighting the difficulties and dilemmas that have to be overcome if interventions are [sic] be more successful in the future than they have been in the past. -- Peter Viggo Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark International Affairs
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Civil War and Insecurity | |
| Civil War and the Security Dilemma | p. 15 |
| Designing Transitions from Civil War | p. 38 |
| Case Studies | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina: How Not to End Civil War | p. 73 |
| Military Intervention in Rwanda's "Two Wars": Partisanship and Indifference | p. 116 |
| Somalia: Civil War and International Intervention | p. 146 |
| War and Peace in Cambodia | p. 181 |
| Comparative Analyses | |
| When All Else Fails: Evaluating Population Transfers and Partition as Solutions to Ethnic Conflict | p. 221 |
| The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict | p. 261 |
| Conclusion | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 311 |
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ISBN: 9780231116275
ISBN-10: 0231116276
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 22nd September 1999
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.4
x 1.744
Weight (kg): 0.462
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