This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence? To answer that question, a wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking situations, from the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars, to more recent settlements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries-including large scale conflicts like the end of WW II and smaller scale, sometimes internal conflicts like those in Cyprus, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Mozambique. Cases on Bosnia and the Middle East add extra interest. Published in cooperation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, this important research is expertly edited by renowned conflict scholars I. William Zartman and Victor Kremenyuk, and includes original case studies from scholars and practitioners around the globe including Janice Gross Stein, Daniel Druckman, and Beth Simmons, among many others.

Most books on global warming have a particular agenda - typically either to persuade the reader of the seriousness of global warming, or to convince the reader that global warming either doesn't exist or isn't a matter of great concern. In this book Dupont has no agenda except for trying to elucidate all of the various positions that one could take on global warming. He divides this range of positions up into four different views - 'Serious Danger', 'Mild Danger', 'Denial' and 'Positive Event'. This book doesn't aim to convince you of anything, but it will be of interest if you are interested in learning about these various positions.