Böcker av Jacob Bercovitch

In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post-Cold War era, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional task-sharing, and truth commissions. This book examines each one of these conflict resolution tools and describes how it works.

Civil wars and internal conflicts pose the greatest threat to international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in East Asia and the Pacific, which has far more of its share of such conflicts. Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific: Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution, edited by Jacob Bercovitch and Karl DeRouen, Jr., is a book of originally commissioned essays on civil wars which provide a compelling area of inquiry. Many of the Asia-Pacific region's wars are very long (such as in Myanmar), some tend to recur (also in Myanmar); some involve religion (Philippines, Thailand), and some (Aceh, Bougainville, East Timor) of the longest have ended in the last few years. In short, the region presents a variety of interesting dynamics that merit close attention in one volume.

Features papers on international conflict mediation.

Analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region - the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and, India-Pakistan. This book is of interest to students of international conflict management, Asian politics, security studies and IR in general.

Provides global, regional, and specific information on the over 350 international conflicts that have occurred since World War II. This book includes comprehensive regional sections, each of which offers an essay providing regional context and highlighting the interrelation of countries and conflict in that area.

This collection of articles examines mediation in a range of situations including international relations, informal mediation by private individuals and by scholars and practitioners, as well as the superpowers as mediators.