STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION

As you set out to read this book you likely ?nd yourself enrolled in any number of courses in the ?elds of international security international relations or perhaps foreign policy analysis or international organization. You might be intensively studying con?ict processes con?ict resolution or peace operations or engaged in a more general inquiry of security war or political violence. Regardless of your speci?c intellectual concern the goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive text dealing with multiple approaches to con?ict management viewed in a contemporary light. In seeking to provide readers with a thorough and consistent baseline exploration of contemporary con?ict management and its various translations this book is structured around twin points of emphasis: the changing nature of con?ict in the post-Cold War era and the plethora of approaches to managing con?icts occurring in this changed environment. Whereas many courses and books dealing with these kinds of subjects have traditionally tilted toward the causes of con?ict the aim of this volume is to lend greater consideration to the management of con?ict once it has occurred.