James D D Smith

Stopping Wars

Defining The Obstacles To Cease-fire

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the problems encountered by protagonists as well as third parties attempting to achieve a cease-fire. It illustrates several in-depth case studies, drawing on such conflicts as the Iran/Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the Yugoslav wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780813399805
• ISBN-10: 0813399807
• Artikelnr.: 22115431

Autorenporträt

Smith, James D D

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Long and Winding Road to Peace
Belligerents During War
Power and the Willingness to Settle: "Why stop now?"
The Avoidance of Weakness and the Search for Strength: "WE will look weak"
Political and Cognitive Dissonance: "We'd never get away with it"
Making the Decision to Stop Fighting: "WE didn't consider it; THEY wouldn't listen; WE couldn't agree"
Unbridgeable Divides and Uncontrollable Armies
the Inability to Cease Fire: "We can't give them what they want; We can't stop fighting"
The Cease
Fire Proposal
Construction, Acceptance, and Failure: "WE can't make/accept the offer; the agreement didn't work"
Third Parties and War
Mediator Impartiality and the "Two
Hat" Dilemma: "You are not objective"
The Imposed Cease
fire: "YOU can't make us"
Conclusions
The Road Ahead
Notes on the Definition of "Cease
fire"
"Why can't they just stop fighting?"
Case Study Chronologies