Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics

Joseph Lepgold is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Friends in Need: Burdensharing in the Persian Gulf War and The Declining Hegemon: The United States and European Defense, 1960-1990. Thomas G. Weiss is Associate Director of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University and Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). He is the editor of several books, including The United Nations and Civil Wars and Collective Security in a Changing World.

"This is an excellent collection. The material is of a uniformly high quality along three dimensions: good writing, identification of important empirical problems relating to collective security and peacekeeping (or, using the term the volume authors prefer, collective conflict management), and good, logical reasoning."There is no question but that the issue of collective conflict management is highly topical both for the academic study of international relations and for real-world foreign policy making, including and especially on the part of the United States." — Joseph M. Grieco, Duke University"This book is very helpful in making sense of the potential for multilateral military action in the post Cold War world. In particular, the chapters on the UN, NATO and the American military were very well done and informative. They provided conceptual background and solid empirical study."I came away with a much better understanding of the future for collective conflict management—both the specific tools available to states and the international community and the international political context in which those actions might take place." — Elizabeth Kier, University of California, Berkeley

• List of Tables and FiguresList of AbbreviationsPrefacePart One:Collective Conflict Management: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives1 Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics: An OverviewJoseph Lepgold and Thomas G. Weiss2 Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Collective Security: The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Debates about Collective Conflict ManagementAlan C. LambornPart Two:Collective Conflict Management: Military Operations and Political Interests3 NATO's Post-Cold War Conflict Management RoleJoseph Lepgold4 The Limits of Peacekeeping, Spheres of Influence, and the Future of the United NationsMichael N. Barnett5 Constraints on Adaptation in the American Military to Collective Conflict Management MissionsRobert B. McCalla6 Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti: What Went Right, What Went Wrong?Andrew BennettPart Three:Collective Conflict Management: The Humanitarian Impulse7 Changing Norms of Sovereignty and Multilateral InterventionBruce Cronin8 Military Intervention and the Organization of International PoliticsMartha Finnemore9 Collective Humanitarian Conflict Management: More or Less than the Millennium?Thomas G. WeissAbout the AuthorsIndex