Columbia University Press, Date: 1999-11-15. Paperback. Good. 1999. Columbia University Press ISBN 0231116276 9780231116275 [US]

ISBN10: 0231116276, ISBN13: 9780231116275, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Softcover Paperback. Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts-four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates.The contributors view ethnic conflict and internal war through the prism of the concept of the security dilemma-a situation in which parties with strong incentives to cooperate wind up nonetheless in bloody competition out of distrust of the opponent. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices. An examination of four recent military ...
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Paperback / softback. New. An examination of four recent military interventions by the international community: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and counterproductive interventions suggests a need to develop a framework for future policy choices. ISBN 0231116276 9780231116275 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0231116276, ISBN13: 9780231116275, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Softcover An examination of four recent military interventions by the international community: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and counterproductive interventions suggests a need to develop a framework for future policy choices. Editor(s): Walter, Barbara F.; Snyder, Jack. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 maps; six text tables. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FMC; 1HFGR; 1HFGS; 3JJP; JPS; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499. . 1999. 0th Edition. Paperback. . . . .
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ISBN10: 0231116276, ISBN13: 9780231116275, [publisher: Columbia University Press 1999-10-06, New York |Chichester] Softcover Language: ENG
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New York |Chichester Columbia University Press 1999 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

Columbia UP, Date: 1999. 1ed. Paperback. New. 1999. Columbia UP ISBN 0231116276 9780231116275 [IN]