There has been an explosion of scholarly writing on Rwanda since the genocide in 1994.
Until then, the country appeared to be unknown or ignored by scholars. This essay attempts …

It he wars of the 1990s stephen~ ohn S t ed ma n confirm a basic finding from the study of
civil war termination:” peacemaking is a risky business.”'The greatest source of risk comes …

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold
war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of …

The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream
economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they …

Now that the United States and its allies have toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, the knotty
question of Iraq's future government is rising to the fore. Although the Bush administration …

Publisher description: Successful coercion should be relatively simple for the United States.
Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States is without rivals in military might …

The conventional wisdom among human rights activists holds that a great deal of the ethnic
conflict in the world today is caused by propagandistic manipulations of public opinion …

This article explores a perverse consequence of the emerging norm of humanitarian
intervention, or “Responsibility to Protect,” contrary to its intent of protecting civilians from …

Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and
between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without …

This article examines mediation in conflicts using both a game-theoretic model and a
quantitative analysis. The game-theoretic model suggests that mediator effectiveness rests …