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This new textbook introduces key mechanisms and issues in international conflict management and engages students with a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to mitigating, managing, and transforming international conflicts. The volume identifies key historical events and international agreements that have shaped and defined the field of international conflict management, as well as key dilemmas facing the field at this juncture. The first section provides an overview of key mechanisms for international conflict management, such as negotiation, mediation, nonviolent resistance, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, transitional justice, and reconciliation. The second section tackles important cross-cutting themes, such as technology, religion, the economy, refugees and migration, and the role of civil society, examining how these issues contribute to international conflicts and how they can be leveraged to help address such conflicts. Each chapter includes a brief historical overview of the evolution of the issue or mechanism, identifies key theoretical and practical debates, and includes case studies, discussion questions, website links, and suggested further reading for further study and engagement. By providing a mixture of theory and practical examples, this textbook provides students with the necessary background to navigate this interdisciplinary field.

Chiozza and Goemans seek to explain why and when political leaders decide to initiate international crises and wars. They argue that the fate of leaders and the way leadership changes, shapes leaders' decisions to initiate international conflict. Leaders who anticipate regular removal from office, through elections for example, have little to gain and much to lose from international conflict, whereas leaders who anticipate a forcible removal from office, such as through coup or revolution, have little to lose and much to gain from conflict. This theory is tested against an extensive analysis of more than 80 years of international conflict and with an intensive historical examination of Central American leaders from 1848 to 1918. Leaders and International Conflict highlights the political nature of the choice between war and peace and will appeal to all scholars of international relations and comparative politics

During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a lower tax cost of arming may confer a strategic delegation advantage. We find supporting empirical evidence in case studies of franchise extensions in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.

Strategies of reassurance (S. der erneuten Versicherung oder Bestätigung) gehen von anderen Annahmen aus als die der Abschreckung. Sie setzen zwar ebenso Feindseligkeit als gegeben voraus, aber im Unterschied zur Abschreckung sehen sie die Wurzeln der Feindseligkeit nicht im Streben des Gegners nach einer günstigen Gelegenheit zum Angriff, sondern in seinen Nöten und Schwächen. Sie versuchen nicht, einer Fehleinschätzung durch verbale reassurance vorzubeugen, sondern bieten eine Palette von Reaktionsmöglichkeiten, auf die der Gegner zurückgreifen kann, um die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Androhung oder des Gebrauchs von Gewalt zu verringern. Vier strategies of reassurance - the exercise of restraint, the creation of norms of competition, the making of evocable commitments, regime building - werden an Hand von konkreten Beispielen vorgestellt. (SWP-Hck)

Argues that a European monetary and political union would likely lead to increased conflicts within Europe over monetary policy and the sharing of power and between Europe and the US over issues of foreign policy and trade.

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