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Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts
Daniel L. Byman
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Description for Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts
Paperback. Only the optimal combination of multiple strategies, implemented in the proper sequence, will ensure success." Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSL1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
What strategies can a government use to end violent ethnic conflicts in the long term? Under what conditions do these strategies work best, and what are their limitations? Are there some ethnic conflicts that governments simply cannot solve? Drawing on an intimate knowledge of the Middle East as well as the experiences of trouble spots in Asia, Africa, and Europe, political scientist and RAND analyst Daniel Byman examines how government policies can affect-and, in some cases, prevent-the recurrence of violent ethnic conflict. Byman identifies and describes five key strategies: coercing groups and leaders, coopting key elites, changing group identities, ... Read more
What strategies can a government use to end violent ethnic conflicts in the long term? Under what conditions do these strategies work best, and what are their limitations? Are there some ethnic conflicts that governments simply cannot solve? Drawing on an intimate knowledge of the Middle East as well as the experiences of trouble spots in Asia, Africa, and Europe, political scientist and RAND analyst Daniel Byman examines how government policies can affect-and, in some cases, prevent-the recurrence of violent ethnic conflict. Byman identifies and describes five key strategies: coercing groups and leaders, coopting key elites, changing group identities, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801868047
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V9780801868047
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About Daniel L. Byman
Daniel L. Byman is a policy analyst with the RAND Corporation and the research director of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy. He is the co-author of The Dynamics of Coercive Force: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might.
Reviews for Keeping the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts
A useful primer for the study of ethnic conflict, one whose prinicpal strength lies in its deft and succinct summarites of the main approaches to the study of ethnicity and conflict... His discussion of the distinctive features of ethnic civil wars shows a particular sensitivity to their uniqueness.
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