Costs of Conflict

Michael E. Brown is associate professor and director of research for the National Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Richard N. Rosecrance is professor of political science and director of the Center for International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Tightly argued, well-illustrated, eminently readable. The authors confront head-on the main methodological problem, how one can foresee a developing conflict situation in time to take preventive measures.

• Chapter 1 Comparing Costs of Prevention and the Costs of Conflict: Toward a New MethodologyPart 2 Failed PreventionChapter 3 BosniaChapter 4 RwandaChapter 5 SomaliaChapter 6 HaitiChapter 7 The Persian GulfPart 8 Initial PreventionChapter 9 MacedoniaChapter 10 SlovakiaChapter 11 Mid-Course PreventionChapter 12 CambodiaChapter 13 El SalvadorChapter 14 The Case for Conflict Prevention