Description
Examining the current system of world disorder, the authors identify ways of operating constructively and navigating conflict in order to better manage and resolve it. Analysing conventional and hybrid conflict at both international and internal state level, they look to transform current scholarship on conflict resolution and management in international relations. Chapters rethink mediation; power in peace-making; prevention of escalation; governance, protest and revolt; inclusion and representation; and the individual as subject and object in conflict resolution and management. Paving the way for future research in the field, the book outlines the need to learn how to operate within the present world disorder in order to prevent the descent into entropy. By awakening realistic creativity and examining present characteristics and future possibilities, the book develops a more positive evolution which can reinstitute an effective new system of World Order.
Both prescriptive and analytical in approach, this insightful book will prove vital to students and scholars of international relations, political science and public policy, alongside policy makers looking to rethink their conflict resolution and management methods.
About the Author
I. William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, US; Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Sinisa Vukovic, Senior Lecturer of Conflict Management and Global Policy and Director of the MA in Global Policy Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, US; Processes of International Negotiation (PIN)
Reviews
'International conflict resolution is more urgently needed than ever. Unfortunately, at a time when doubt has been growing about its viability and productivity. The Rethinking by Zartman and Vukovic is powerful because it does not run away from the project but insists on the necessity and possibility of managing conflict. The wealth of new ideas in this book actually makes the world better equipped to confront present and future conflicts.' -- Ole Waever, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
'Rethinking Conflict Resolution and Managementis a magisterial contribution to the negotiation literature by two eminent scholars of international negotiation and conflict resolution. In a world where great power rivalries and conflict are accelerating and there is an urgent need for diplomacy to steer the world away from further conflict, this book offers tangible solutions and recommendations. It should be required reading for scholars and practitioners alike and will serve as a useful text for students who want to better understand the ingredients that go into successful diplomacy and conflict management.' -- Fen Osler Hampson, Carleton University, Canada
'This masterful book, co-authored by I. William Zartman, a leading scholar of international conflict management and negotiation for over a half century, and his young co-author, Sinisa Vukovic, a rising star in this field, presents an impressive analysis of the causes of the collapse of the international order in the 21st century, of which the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the final "nail in the coffin." It presents a clarion call to rethink virtually all assumptions of international conflict management in the future and to create new ideas necessary to reconstitute the norms, institutions, and practices of international relations to prevent global catastrophe in the decades ahead.' -- P. Terrence Hopmann, John Hopkins University (SAIS), US
'Rethinking Conflict Resolution and Management is a book of big ideas on global peace and war. It introduces powerful new concepts, such as the "wall of inhibitions" through which belligerence breaks and constitutes a new normative reality. The volume is an inspiring, thought-provoking, but also entertaining read.' -- Timo Kivimaki, University of Bath, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781800376984
Author I. W. Zartman
Format Hardback
Page Count 196
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
