Breaking the Cycle
Subtitle: A Framework for Conflict Intervention
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: May 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780312162535
Subjects: Peace; Political Science / International Security; International Law; Politics / Current Events; Case studies; Conflict management; International police; Intervention (International la; Intervention (International law); Politics/International Relations
First sentence: A prominent feature of the post-cold war global landscape is intergroup conflict.
Description: A collaborative effort from nine authors who represent the next generation of foreign-policy analysts, Breaking the Cycle offers a new way of thinking about conflict intervention. The book develops a framework for how to intervene in a positive manner when states are plagued by violent, intergroup conflict, thereby "breaking the cycle" of continued bloodshed and failed interventions.

It then goes on to explore this framework by examining nine cases of contemporary conflict intervention, in Bosnia, Chechnya, El Salvador, Gaza/Palestine, Haiti, Nagorno-Karabakh, Rwanda, Somalia, and Tajikistan. In analyzing these case studies within the context of such a framework, the book lays out how intervention can - and cannot - prevent or mitigate violence and reestablish the political, economic, and societal enfranchisement on which multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies depend.