Managing Conflict In a World Adrift

by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, Pamela Aall

Overview

In the midst of a global political shift where power moves from central institutions to smaller, more disbursed units, "Managing Conflict in a World Adrift" features lessons in contemporary theory and practice of conflict management. In this volume, forty of the world's leading analysts of international affairs provide innovative thinking about the relationship between political, social, and economic change and the outbreak and spread of conflict—and what this means in practical terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781601272225
Publisher:	United States Institute of Peace Press (USIP Press)
Publication date:	01/28/2015
Pages:	650
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University and a distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innnovation (CIGI). His teaching and research focus on conflict management and regional security issues. He served as chairman of the board of the United States Institute of Peace (1992-2004) and as a board member for many years thereafter. From 1981-1989, he was U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs. As such, he was the principal diplomatic architect and mediator in the prolonged negotiations among Angola, Cuba, and South Africa that led to Namibia’s transition to independence, and to the withdrawal of Cuban forces from Angola. Dr. Crocker served as a staff officer at the National Security Council (1970-72) where he worked on Middle East, Indian Ocean, and African issues and director of African studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1976-80). He serves on the boards Universal Corporation, Inc., a leading independent trading company in tobacco and agricultural products; Good Governance Group Ltd, a business intelligence advisory service; and Bell Pottinger USA, a communications and public relations firm. Dr. Crocker is a founding member of the Global Leadership Foundation, the Africa-based Housing for HIV Foundation and member of the Independent Advisory Board of the World Bank. Dr. Crocker is the author of High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood (1993), co-author (with Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall) of Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases (2004), and coeditor of Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World (2007), Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict (2005); Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict (2001); and Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World (1999).

Fen Osler Hampson is a distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI). He is also Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University. Hampson was a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1993-94.

Pamela R. Aall is a senior fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the former vice president for United States Institute of Peace's domestic programs, Education and Training Center . Before joining the Institute in 1993, she was a consultant to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and to the Institute of International Education. She held a number of positions at the Rockefeller Foundation. She has also worked for the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam and Brussels), the International Council for Educational Development (New York), and the New York Botanical Garden. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from Columbia University and attended the London School of Economics, conducting research on political and economic integration in Scandinavia and Europe.

Table of Contents

Foreword Martti Ahtisaari ix

Acknowledgments xi

Contributors xiii

Part I The Evolving Global Security Environment

1 The Center Cannot Hold: Conflict Management in an Era of Diffusion Chester A. Crocker Fen Osler Hampson Pamela Aall 3

2 The Shifting Landscape of Conflict Management David A. Welch 23

3 US Power in a G-0 World: Implications for Conflict and Stability David F. Gordon Michael J. Johnson 45

4 The Power Cycle, Territorial Security, and Peace in the Twenty-First Century Charles F. Doran 63

5 The Changing Normative Environment for Conflict Management Abiodun Williams 83

6 Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons Stewart Patrick 101

7 From Somnolence to Turbulence: The Global Awakening Ellen Laipson 123

8 Promise and Peril; The Role of Technology-Enabled Networks in Conflict Mitigation Sheldon Himelfarb 131

9 Climate Change, Environmental Stress, and Conflict Nils Fetter Gleditsch 147

10 National Self-Determination Conflicts: Explaining Endurance and Intractability Sumantra Bose 169

Part II The Triggers of Violent Conflict in the Emerging Security Environment

11 A Not So Great Awakening? Early Elections, Weak Institutions, and the Risk of Violence Jack Snyder Dawn Brancati Edward D. Mansfield 187

12 Economic and Political Causes of Conflict: An Overview and Some Policy Implications Graham K. Brown Frances Stewart 199

13 Crime-War Battlefields Vanda Felbab-Brown 229

14 The Impact of Global Demographic Changes on the International Security Environment Jack A. Goldstone Hilton Root Monty G. Marshall 241

15 Misperception, Overconfidence, and Communication Failure between Rising and Status-Quo States Deborah Welch Larson 255

Part III Actors and Institutions

16 The Piccolo, Trumpet, and Bass Fiddle: The Orchestration of Collective Conflict Management Chester A. Crocker Fen Osler Hampson Pamela Aall 271

17 Practical Sovereignty and Postconflict Governance David A. Lake 293

18 The UN Security Council and Crisis Management: Still Central after All These Years Bruce D. Jones 311

19 Regional Arrangements and the Use of Military Force Paul D. Williams 331

20 Civil Society and Conflict Management Thania Paffenholz 345

21 Peace and Security in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding the Gendered Nature of Power Chantal de Jonge Oudraat Kathleen Kuehnast 361

Part IV The Tools and Use of Conflict Management

22 The Tools of Negotiation Fen Osler Hampson I. William Zartman 377

23 The Diplomacy of Engagement in Transitional Polities Chester A. Crocker 397

24 Building Interests, Relationships, and Capacity: Three Roads to Conflict Management Pamela Aall 409

25 Deterrence Gone Astray: Choices in Coercion for Conflict Management Richard K. Betts 429

26 Dealing with Proliferation: The Nuclear Abolition Vision versus Practical Tools for Today's Extremist States Michael O'Hanlon 441

27 The Future of Conflict Prevention Paul B. Stares 459

28 Rebuilding War-Torn Societies: A Critical Review of International Approaches Necla Tschirgi 475

29 Dealing with Terrorism Martha Crenshaw 491

Part V Dilemmas and Debates

30 What Is the "International Community"? Tod Lindberg 513

31 Postbellum Peacebuilding: Law, Justice, and Democratic Peacebuilding Michael W. Doyle 535

32 The Long Decade of State Building Astri Suhrke 555

33 Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: The Road Ahead Jane E. Stromseth 571

Part VI Conclusion

34 Learning from the Octopus: What Nature Can Tell Us about Adapting to a Changing World Rafe Sagarin 595

Index 601