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Book SynopsisAn 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.
Trade ReviewThis volume is a must for anyone interested in the management of ethnic conflicts as it does a good job of highlighting the difficulties and dilemmas that have to be overcome if interventions are [sic] be more successful in the future than they have been in the past. -- Peter Viggo Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark International Affairs
Table of ContentsPart One Civil War and Insecurity 1. Civil War and the Security Dilemma, by Jack Snyder and Robert Jervis 2. Designing Transitions for Violent Civil War, by Barbara F. Walter Part Two Case Studies 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina: How Not to End Civil War, by Susan L. Woodward 4. Military Intervention in Rwanda's "Two Wars": Partisanship and Indifference, by Bruce D. Jones 5. Somalia: Civil War and International Intervention, by David D. Laitin 6. War and Peace in Cambodia, by Michael W. Doyle Part Three Comparative Analyses 7. When All Else Fails: Evaluating Population Transfers and Partition as Solutions to Ethnic Conflict, by Chaim D. Kaufmann 8. The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict, by Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Barry R. Weingast 9. Conclusion, by Barbara F. Walter Index