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Book SynopsisWhy do cease-fire agreements sometimes last for years while others flounder barely long enough to be announced? How to maintain peace in the aftermath of war is arguably one of the most important questions of the post - Cold War era. This title offers an analysis of why cease-fires between states succeed or fail.
Trade Review"Peace Time deserves a prominent place in [the] new scholarship on war. The book is an outstanding example of creativity, scholarly attention to a normatively important question, hard-headed integrity as well as of the creative employment of multiple methods... Fortna has produced an important book."--H.E. Goemans, Japanese Journal of Political Science
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Maps ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE A Theory of Agreements and the Durability of Peace 10 CHAPTER TWO Investigating the Durability of Peace 39 CHAPTER THREE The Baseline Prospects for Peace 76 CHAPTER FOUR Agreements: Epiphenomenal or Functional? 114 CHAPTER FIVE Agreements and the Durability of Peace 151 CHAPTER SIX Peace Mechanisms: What Works and What Doesn't? 173 CONCLUSION 211 APPENDIX A Cease-Fires and the Resumption of War 217 APPENDIX B Cease-Fires Data Set 219 References 223 Index 235
