Strategies for International Conflict Analysis and Resolution

As you set out to read this book, you likely nd yourself enrolled in any number of courses in the elds of international security, international relations, or perhaps foreign policy analysis or international organization. You might be intensively studying conict processes, conict resolution, or peace operations, or engaged in a more general inquiry of security, war, or political violence. Regardless of your specic intellectual concern, the goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive text dealing with multiple approaches to conict management viewed in a contemporary light. In seeking to provide readers with a thorough and consistent baseline exploration of contemporary conict management and its various translations, this book is structured around twin points of emphasis: the changing nature of conict in the post-Cold War era, and the plethora of approaches to managing conicts occurring in this changed environment. Whereas many courses and books dealing with these kinds of subjects have traditionally tilted toward the causes of conict, the aim of this volume is to lend greater consideration to the management of conict once it has occurred.