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International Conflict Management

An Introduction

By Michael J. Butler

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

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Continuity and Change 1. What is International Security Management? 2. The Changing Nature of Security 3. The Challenges of New Wars Part II: International Conflict Management in Contemporary Application 4. Peacekeeping 5. A Study in Peacekeeping: UNOMIG in Abkhazia 6. Mediation 7. A Study in Mediation: IGAD in Sudan 8. Peace Enforcement 9. A Study in Peace Enforcement: INTERFET in East Timor 10. Adjudication 11. A Study in Adjudication: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Mapiripan Massacre in Columbia 12. Conflict Management in the 21st Century: Defining Success, Avoiding Failure Conclusion