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Vor dem Hintergrund einleitender Analysen des globalen Kontextes der regionalen Sicherheit im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum wird zunächst das Problem der Militarisierung Südostasiens, des Pazifiks und Japans behandelt. Sodann werden die Implikationen subregionaler Konflikte (Korea, Indochina, Sri Lanka, iranisch-irakischer Krieg) für die regionale Sicherheit untersucht. Als Beispiele für eine Politik der Friedenssicherung resp. als alternative Entwicklungsmodelle zur Militarisierung (d.h. als Demilitarisierungsstrategie) werden die Antinuklearpolitik Neuseelands bzw. die Initiativen zur Schaffung nuklearwaffenfreier Zonen im Südpazifik, im Indik und in Südostasien vorgestellt. Abschließend werden die Bedingungsfaktoren und Perspektiven für eine friedliche Entwicklung in der asiatisch-pazifischen Region beleuchtet. (BIOst-Klk)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. The Sources of Regional Power Nuclear Postures: Posture Optimization Theory -- Chapter Three. Pakistan -- Chapter Four. India -- Chapter Five. China -- Chapter Six. France -- Chapter Seven. Israel -- Chapter Eight. South Africa -- Chapter Nine. Deterring Unequally I: A Large-n Analysis -- Chapter Ten. Deterring Unequally II: Regional Power Nuclear Postures and Crisis Behavior -- Chapter Eleven: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Regional conflict systems are characterised by their complexity of actors, causes, structural conditions and dynamics. Such complexity poses difficulties to those looking to undertake scientific analysis of the regional dynamics of violence. It is still quite unclear how militant violence diffuses in regions and under which conditions a regional conflict system can emerge. This review of existing approaches to regional conflict dynamics in international studies and peace and conflict studies focuses on how the regional conflict dynamics and the causal mechanisms behind the development of regional conflict systems are dealt with, considering process dynamics in space and time as well as in the interactions between possible causal factors. The primary gaps in existing research are identified and possible new research directions sketched out. Regional conflict systems are characterised by their complexity of actors, causes, structural conditions and dynamics. Such complexity, however, poses difficulties to those looking to undertake scientific analysis of these processes. In the present paper existing approaches to regional conflict dynamics in international studies and peace and conflict studies are reviewed. Of particular interest is the question how these approaches dealt with regional violence in areas with limited or no statehood as this is one of the striking conditions for the emergence and diffusion of regional conflict systems. Starting from this question, the main research gaps that exist in the current literature on regional conflicts will be detected. Furthermore, new research directions will be pointed out. Adapted from the source document.

Regional conflict systems are characterised by their complexity of actors, causes, structural conditions and dynamics. Such complexity poses difficulties to those looking to undertake scientific analysis of the regional dynamics of violence. It is still quite unclear how militant violence diffuses in regions and under which conditions a regional conflict system can emerge. This review of existing approaches to regional conflict dynamics in international studies and peace and conflict studies focuses on how the regional conflict dynamics and the causal mechanisms behind the development of regional conflict systems are dealt with, considering process dynamics in space and time as well as in the interactions between possible causal factors. The primary gaps in existing research are identified and possible new research directions sketched out. Regional conflict systems are characterised by their complexity of actors, causes, structural conditions and dynamics. Such complexity, however, poses difficulties to those looking to undertake scientific analysis of these processes. In the present paper existing approaches to regional conflict dynamics in international studies and peace and conflict studies are reviewed. Of particular interest is the question how these approaches dealt with regional violence in areas with limited or no statehood as this is one of the striking conditions for the emergence and diffusion of regional conflict systems. Starting from this question, the main research gaps that exist in the current literature on regional conflicts will be detected. Furthermore, new research directions will be pointed out. Adapted from the source document.

"Conflict, Regions, and Regional Hierarchies" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Regional conflict systems are characterized by their complexity of actors, causes, structural conditions and dynamics. Such complexity poses difficulties to those looking to undertake scientific analysis of the regional dynamics of violence. It is still quite unclear how militant violence diffuses in regions and under which conditions a regional conflict system can emerge. This review of existing approaches to regional conflict dynamics in international studies and peace and conflict studies focuses on how the regional conflict dynamics and the causal mechanisms behind the development of regional conflict systems are dealt with, considering process dynamics in space and time as well as in the interactions between possible causal factors. The primary gaps in existing research are identified and possible new research directions sketched out. Regional conflict systems are characterized by their complexity of actors, causes, structural conditions and dynamics. Such complexity, however, poses difficulties to those looking to undertake scientific analysis of these processes. In the present paper existing approaches to regional conflict dynamics in international studies and peace and conflict studies are reviewed. Of particular interest is the question how these approaches dealt with regional violence in areas with limited or no statehood as this is one of the striking conditions for the emergence and diffusion of regional conflict systems. Starting from this question, the main research gaps that exist in the current literature on regional conflicts will be detected. Furthermore, new research directions will be pointed out." (author's abstract)

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The Lebanese conflict has gone through a number of phases, each with its own rationale, incorporating different issues and at times different players. Throughout there were attempts on both the domestic and the external level to find a solution to what was plaguing the country and eroding its political and social institutions. This article examines three major attempts at resolving the Lebanese conflict when the representatives of the domestic factions sat together and came up with formulae that appeared to address everyone's concerns. The process of multilateral negotiations, the asymmetrical structures of those negotiations, the ripe moment for negotiating, the role of external mediators, and the whole issue of the valid spokesman are analyzed within a theoretical framework based on I. William Zartman's model of government-insurgency negotiations.

Foreign policy strategy since 1985.

Interview with Colonel General Georgii Shpak on role of air mobile forces, and their use in the Chechnya conflict, peacekeeping operations in former Yugoslavia, and possible missions elsewhere.