Committing to Peace : : The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars / / Barbara F. Walter.
Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to...
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Walter, Barbara F., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Committing to Peace : The Successful Settlement of Civil Wars / Barbara F. Walter. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2002 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: THEORY -- PART TWO: DATA AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS -- PART THREE: CASE STUDIES -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, Barbara Walter details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process--the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms. Her key finding: rarely are such conflicts resolved without active third-party intervention.Walter argues that for negotiations to succeed it is not enough for the opposing sides to resolve the underlying issues behind a civil war. Instead the combatants must clear the much higher hurdle of designing credible guarantees on the terms of agreement--something that is difficult without outside assistance. Examining conflicts from Greece to Laos, China to Columbia, Bosnia to Rwanda, Walter confirms just how crucial the prospect of third-party security guarantees and effective power-sharing pacts can be--and that adversaries do, in fact, consider such factors in deciding whether to negotiate or fight. While taking many other variables into account and acknowledging that third parties must also weigh the costs and benefits of involvement in civil war resolution, this study reveals not only how peace is possible, but probable. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Civil war. Low-intensity conflicts (Military science). World politics 20th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh Addis Ababa agreement (1993). Afghanistan. American Civil War. Angola. Arusha accords. Baumhoegger, Goswin. Boutros-Ghali, Boutros. Callaghan, James. El Salvador. Geneva peace agreement. Habyarimana, Juvénal. Johnson, Phyllis. Karker, Hassame. King, Charles. Lancaster House negotiations. Laos. Lebanon. Nicaragua. Rhodesian Front. Tela agreement. Touval, Saadia. United Nations. University of Michigan. Victoria Falls Conference. Young, Andrew. Zambia. autonomous regions. balance of power. cease-fire agreements. costs of war. credible commitment theory. democracy-autocracy scale. divisibility of stakes. ethics of intervention. federalism. hegemony. hypotheses. logit analysis. mediation. military consolidation. monitoring and verification. multivariate regression analysis. one-party rule. parliamentary system. partition. political pacts. power-sharing pacts. presidential system. proportional representation. selection bias probit. simulation procedure. three-stage process. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Gap Years 9783110784237 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824465?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400824465 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400824465/original |
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