James D D Smith

Stopping Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Defining The Obstacles To Cease-fire

• Format: ePub

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429976742
• Artikelnr.: 54112929

Autorenporträt

James D.D. Smith is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

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 Ahea