Isak Svensson

International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking

Taking Sides in Civil Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the effect of biased and neutral mediators in civil wars, with the main argument being tested through analysis of global data and case studies of contemporary peace processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780415660747
• ISBN-10: 0415660742
• Artikelnr.: 36125289

Autorenporträt

Isak Svensson is Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and former Director of Research at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of The Go-Between: Ambassador Jan Eliasson and the Styles of International Mediation (co-authored with Peter Wallensteen, 2010), and Ending Holy Wars: Religion and Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction PART I: Theory 1. What is Mediation Success? 2.
Problems with Unbiased Mediators 3. Why Biased Mediators bring Peace
Institutions PART II: Empirics 4. The Effects of Mediators on Peace
Institutions: Statistical Analyses 5. Getting the Government to Make
Concessions: India and Norway in Sri Lanka 6. Facilitator and Guarantor:
Malaysia in the Philippines 7. Doing (Almost) the Most of a Special
Relationship: US Mediation in Camp David II 8. From Warmongers to
Peacemakers: Biased Mediators in Cambodia 9. Security Guarantees as
"Peacekeeping": Russia in Abkhazia PART III: Conclusions 10. A New Role for
Unbiased Mediators? 11. Prospects and Problems of Biased Mediation