International Conflict Management

ISBN-13: 9780415772297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.

Michael J. Butler

Opis

This textbook chronicles the logic, evolution, application, and outcomes of the five major approaches to international conflict management:

• traditional peacekeeping
• peace enforcement and support operations
• negotiation and bargaining
• mediation
• adjudication.

While documenting the origins, background, and past uses of conflict management, this book provides students with a fuller understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these five techniques within the dynamic context of the contemporary security environment, especially in relation to recent and ongoing cases of inter-state and intra-state conflict in which one or more has been applied. To demonstrate the changing nature of security in the post-Cold War world, Michael J. Butler contrasts this with competing visions of security during the Cold War and early historical periods. Covering the "New Wars" scholarship, he offers numerous points of comparison to the dominant causes, types, strategy, and prosecution of warfare in other eras.

This book will be essential reading for all students of peacekeeping, peace operations, conflict management, mediation, peace studies and international security in general.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Continuity and Change  1. What is International Security Management?  2. The Changing Nature of Security  3. The Challenges of New Wars  Part 2: Concepts and Application  4. Peacekeeping  5. A Study in Peacekeeping: UNOMIG in Georgia  6. Mediation  7. A Study in Mediation: IGAD in Sudan  8. Peace Enforcement  9. A Study in Peace Enforcement: INTERFET in East Timor  10. International Adjudication  11. A Study in International Adjudication: The Mapiripán Massacre  12. Conclusion

O autorze

Michael Butler is Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and International Relations, Clark University, USA.