Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention

Name: Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention
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ISBN: 9780231116275

ISBN-10: 0231116276

ISBN-13: 9780231116275

Edition: 1999

Authors: Barbara Walter, Jack Snyder, Jack Snyder

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Civil War and Insecurity



Civil War and the Security Dilemma




Designing Transitions from Civil War




Case Studies



Bosnia and Herzegovina: How Not to End Civil War




Military Intervention in Rwanda's "Two Wars": Partisanship and Indifference




Somalia: Civil War and International Intervention




War and Peace in Cambodia




Comparative Analyses



When All Else Fails: Evaluating Population Transfers and Partition as Solutions to Ethnic Conflict




The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict




Conclusion



Index