Networked regionalism as conflict management / Anna Ohanyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ohanyan, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism (International organization).

Conflict management.

Peace-building.

Pacific settlement of international disputes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history, geography, politics, and culture. These "frozen conflicts" defy conflict management interventions by both internal and external agents and institutions. Worse, they constantly threaten to extend beyond their local geographies, as in the terrorist bombings in Boston by ethnic Chechens, or to escalate from skirmishes to full-scale war, as in Nagorno-Karabakh. Consequently, such conflicts cry out for alternative approaches to the classic, state-focused, and sovereignty-based conflict management models that are practiced in traditional diplomacy—which most often produce rather short-term, ad hoc, fragmented interventions and outcomes. Drawing upon the cases of the South Caucasus, the Western Balkans, Central America, South East Asia, and Northern Ireland, Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management offers a theoretical and practical solution to this impasse by arguing for regional collective interventions that involve a long-term reengineering of existing conflict management infrastructure on the ground. Such approaches have been attracting the attention of scholars and practitioners alike yet, thus far, these concepts have rarely involved more than simple prescriptions for regional cooperation between grassroots actors and traditional diplomacy. Specifically, says Anna Ohanyan, only the cultivation and establishment of regional peace systems can provide an effective path toward conflict management in these standoffs in such intractably divided regions.

Contents:

Regional theory for conflict areas

Ties that bind ... or bond? : network theory of regionalism in PDAs

Networking peaceful regions

Three regional approaches to conflict management

The Western Balkans : a region on the move

South Caucasus : weak states or a broken region?

Peace-building as region-building : theory and practice.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804794947

0804794944

OCLC:

907289255