Incentivizing Peace
«Th[is] book significantly advance[s] our understanding of the determinants of peace in conflict-affected countries.»
Susanna P.Campbell, American University, Perspectives on Politics
Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics. While mediation, intervention, and peacekeeping have produced some positive results in helping to end civil wars, they fall short in preventing them in the first place. Les mer
wars. The authors demonstrate that highly-structured intergovernmental organizations (IGOs such as the World Bank, IMF, or regional development banks) are particularly well-positioned to engage in civil war prevention. When such IGOs have been actively engaged in nations on the edge, their potent economic tools
have helped to steer rebel-government interactions away from escalation and toward peaceful settlement. Incentivizing Peace provides enlightening case evidence that IGO participation is a key to better predicting, and thus preventing, the outbreak of civil war.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190699529
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«Th[is] book significantly advance[s] our understanding of the determinants of peace in conflict-affected countries.»
Susanna P.Campbell, American University, Perspectives on Politics
«The book, through sophisticated research, clearly demonstrates that conflict escalation can be prevented if a country is connected to HSIGOs.»
Erich P. Schellhammer, Royal Roads University, The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies