This survey provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application, and outcomes of four major approaches to the practice of international conflict management:
• traditional peacekeeping, • peace enforcement and support operations, • mediation, • adjudication.
The book aims to provide the student with a fuller understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these four techniques within the dynamic context of the contemporary security environment, especially in relation to recent and ongoing case studies of inter-state and intra-state conflict. To demonstrate the changing nature of security in the post-Cold War world, the text contrasts this with competing visions of security during the Cold War and earlier periods, and provides numerous points of comparison with the dominant causes, types, strategy, and prosecution of warfare in other eras.
International Conflict Management will be essential reading for all students of conflict management, mediation, peacekeeping, peace and conflict studies, and international security in general.
The Author
Michael J. Butler is Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and International Relations, Clark University, USA. |