Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
About the Book Series
This series will publish the best work in the field of security studies and conflict management. In particular, it will promote leading-edge work that straddles the divides between conflict management and security studies, between academics and practitioners, and between disciplines.
International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking: Taking Sides in Civil Wars
1st Edition
By Isak Svensson
July 27, 2016
This book examines the effect of biased and neutral mediators in civil wars. Based on analysis of both global data and case studies of contemporary peace processes, including India and Norway in Sri Lanka, China in Cambodia, US in Israel/Palestine, and Russia in Georgia, the book makes two main ...
Regional Organizations and Peacemaking: Challengers to the UN?
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Wallensteen, Anders Bjurner
August 05, 2014
This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN). Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts to deal with international security. The ...
Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management: The art of avoiding war
1st Edition
By Rongxing Guo
July 03, 2014
This book examines the problems of boundary demarcation and its impact on territorial disputes, and offers techniques to manage and resolve the resulting conflicts. Historically, most civil conflicts and internal wars have been directly related to boundary or territorial disputes. Cross-border ...
Theory and Practice of International Mediation: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Jacob Bercovitch
June 19, 2014
This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field. It has become common practice to note that mediation has been, and remains, one of the most important structures of dealing...
UN Sanctions and Conflict: Responding to Peace and Security Threats
1st Edition
By Andrea Charron
October 03, 2013
This book examines the application of the UN Security Council's mandatory sanctions since 1946, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for specific types of conflict. Beginning in the Cold War period with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia and continuing today, following the post-9/11 experience ...
Human Security in Turkey: Challenges for the 21st century
1st Edition
Edited
By Alpaslan Özerdem, Füsun Özerdem
June 21, 2013
This edited volume explores human security challenges in the context of Turkey. Turkey occupies a critical geopolitical position between Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus. It is an important peace-broker in regional conflicts and a leading country in peacekeeping operations, and has ...
International Mediation in Civil Wars: Bargaining with Bullets
1st Edition
By Timothy D Sisk
December 06, 2010
This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for ‘powerful peacemaking’ – using incentives and sanctions – to leverage parties into peace. As internal violence within countries is a hugely significant threat to international peace in ...
Conflict Management and African Politics: Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation
1st Edition
Edited
By Terrence Lyons, Gilbert M. Khadiagala
October 20, 2010
This edited volume builds on a core set of concepts developed by I. William Zartman to offer new insights into conflict management and African politics. Key concepts such as ripe moments, hurting stalemates, and collapsed states, are built upon in order to show how conflict resolution theory may be...
International Conflict Mediation: New Approaches and Findings
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob Bercovitch, Scott Sigmund Gartner
February 24, 2010
This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation. International conflict mediation has become one of, if not the most prominent and ...
Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: Moving From Violence to Sustainable Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce W. Dayton, Louis Kriesberg
April 02, 2009
This book seeks to examine the causes of escalation and de-escalation in intrastate conflicts. Specifically, the volume seeks to map the processes and dynamics that lead groups challenging existing power structures to engage in violent struggle; the processes and dynamics that contribute to the ...
Negotiation and Conflict Management: Essays on Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By I. William Zartman
March 02, 2009
This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order. Responding to a lack ...