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Book SynopsisWhy does soft power conflict management meet with variable success over the course of a single mediation? In Nested Security, Erin K. Jenne asserts that international conflict management is almost never a straightforward case of success or failure. Instead, external mediators may reduce communal tensions at one point but utterly fail at another point, even if the incentives for conflict remain unchanged. Jenne explains this puzzle using a nested security model of conflict management, which holds that protracted ethnic or ideological conflicts are rarely internal affairs, but rather are embedded in wider regional and/or great power disputes. Internal conflict is nested within a regional environment, which in turn is nested in a global environment. Efforts to reduce conflict on the ground are therefore unlikely to succeed without first containing or resolving inter-state or trans-state conflict processes.Nested security is neither irreversible nor static: ethnic relations may e
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Erin Jenne makes an important contribution to the literature on conflict management. Jenne argues that in order for mediation of civil disputes to succeed, it is necessary to first address the wider conflict environment.... But as she herself acknowledges, external stability alone does not create peace. It is an important piece of the conflict management puzzle and she does well to remind scholars and policymakers alike that we cannot get so caught up in the trees that we miss the forest.
-- Jennifer De Maio * H-Net *
Jenne (Central European Univ.) presents a comprehensive analysis of international conflict management under two European security systems: the League of Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).... highly recommended.
-- K. M. Zaarour * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Promises and Pitfalls of Cooperative Conflict Management2. The Theory of Nested Security3. Preventive Diplomacy in Interwar Europe4. Induced Devolution in Interwar Europe5. Preventive Diplomacy in Post–Cold War Europe6. Induced Devolution in Post–Cold War Europe7. Nested Security beyond EuropeGreat Powers and Cooperative Conflict Management
