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Book SynopsisIn Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regional peacemaking. Through a qualitative empirical analysis of all the regional rivalries that terminated in peace treaties in the twentieth centuryincluding detailed case studies of the Franco-German, Egyptian-Israeli, and Israeli-Jordanian peace settlementsRipsman concludes that efforts to encourage peacemaking that focus on changing the attitudes of the rival societies or democratizing the rival polities to enable societal input into security policy are unlikely to achieve peace.Prior to a peace treaty, he finds, peacemaking is driven by states, often against intense societal opposition, for geostrategic reasons or to preserve domestic power. After a formal treaty has been concluded, the stability of peace depends on societal buy-in through mechanisms such as bilateral economic interdependence, democratization of former rivals, coop
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In this groundbreaking book, Ripsman argues that successful peacemaking requires both approaches. Initial breakthroughs rely on governments' negotiating formal peace settlements, often over the objections of their publics.
-- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *
Table of ContentsTop-Down Peacemaking, Bottom-Up Peace
1. Regional Stabilization in International Relations Theory
2. Franco-German Peacemaking after World War II
3. The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty
4. The Israeli-Jordanian Treaty
5. Other Twentieth-Century Cases
Peacemaking between Regional Rivals: Theoretical and Policy Implications
