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1. Conflicts, development and progress : an introduction -- 2. Insecurity from entitlement failures in the Middle East and North Africa -- 3. Interest group politics and defence spending -- 4. Dynamics of terrorism in a fragmented word : the Middle East and North Africa conundrum -- 5. Conflict management procedure in the Middle East -- 6. Military spending : decision-making in anarchy and herd instincts -- 7. Equity, justice and peace : historical analysis -- 8. Summary and conclusion.

The article debunks the conception that peace agreements are all equal. Distinct from the conventional monocausal assessment, I view the peace agreement as a cohesive whole and evaluate its strength in terms of its structural and procedural provisions. I use data on the length of intrastate peace episodes during the period from 1946 to 2010. My key finding is that the design quality of the peace agreement has a significant impact on the durability of peace. Agreements that are carefully designed to deal with all obstacles to cooperation have the strongest pacifying effect among armed conflict outcomes. The article sets forth ways to sharpen the performance of conflict management operations in war-torn countries.

The article debunks the conception that peace agreements are all equal. Distinct from the conventional monocausal assessment, I view the peace agreement as a cohesive whole and evaluate its strength in terms of its structural and procedural provisions. I use data on the length of intrastate peace episodes during the period from 1946 to 2010. My key finding is that the design quality of the peace agreement has a significant impact on the durability of peace. Agreements that are carefully designed to deal with all obstacles to cooperation have the strongest pacifying effect among armed conflict outcomes. The article sets forth ways to sharpen the performance of conflict management operations in war-torn countries. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd.]

In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing for the rule of international law and cooperation, control of international power and collective defence against international aggression. He lays bare the issues at stake in the Second World War and draws lines on which a lasting peace could be framed.

A critical review of James Hinton's Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth Century Britain (London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989). Hinton argues that British peace politics has been characterized throughout the century by imperialist pacifism (IP) -- the belief in GB's civilizing mission to create a more harmonious international order. GB's renunciation of its weapons would set an exemplary standard for other nations to follow. Hinton aruges that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's (CND) program of unilaterlism -- the demand that GB unconditionally relinquish its nuclear weapons & thus take the lead internationally -- was a variant on this perspective. What CND failed to grasp was contemporary GB's very limited leverage on the behavior of other nation states. Although Hinton's arguments are valid, it is noted that unilateralism was a more complex program than Hinton recognizes; by focusing on IP, he underplays the more creative & politically successful aspects of CND's campaigning: eg, its role in the making of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in Dec 1987. 16 References. Modified AA

"How the Contractualist Peace Overtook the Democratic Peace" published on by Oxford University Press.