Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars,
many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international
security agenda. The international community, often acting through
the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt
compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these
conflicts -- four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. "Civil Wars,
Insecurity, and Intervention" is a detailed examination by a host
of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to
draw lessons for today's policy debates.
The contributors view ethnic conflict and internal war through
the prism of the concept of the security dilemma -- a situation in
which parties with strong incentives to cooperate wind up
nonetheless in bloody competition out of distrust of the opponent.
"Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention" assesses how
international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in
civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that
make security commitments credible to the warring parties. The
mixed record of partial successes, failures, and in some cases
counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract
lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future
policy choices.
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