Regional Peacemaking and Conflict Management: A Comparative Approach

✍ Scribed by Carmela Lutmar; Benjamin Miller

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines mechanisms for regional peacemaking and conflict management in Europe and the Middle East. To date little research has been devoted to uncovering the conditions for peace, and the factors that contribute to stabilizing the state of peace. This volume assesses the factors that contribute to regional pacification, the incentives that motivate states in establishing peaceful relations, and most importantly, how regions become peaceful. It discusses the conditions under which various types of ‘peace’ might emerge on a regional level and the factors most likely to determine the outcome. The book takes an innovative approach through a systematic comparison of two regions that are particularly prominent and important for the subject of regional pacification: Europe and the Middle East. While many believe that the European case is the indispensable model for peacemaking, others believe that these two regions are too different for Europe to be a useful framework for the Middle East. This volume occupies a middle ground between these two extreme positions. It argues that while a mindless copying of European models will not lead to peace in the Middle East, important insights can be gained from the most successful case of regional peacemaking to date. This work will be of much interest to students of regional security, peacemaking, conflict management, Middle East politics, European security and IR in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of tables and figures
Contributor bios
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Theoretical framework
1 Explaining the warm peace in Europe versus the shifts between hot war and cold peace in the Middle East
PART II Europe – from hot war to warm peace
2 With a little help from our institutions: French–German security relations after 1945
3 Why “warm peace” in Europe is not so warm: the impact of immigration-related securitization process on the European security community
4 Voice opportunity as a key to stability
5 In search of identity: ‘Normative Power Europe’ through the lens of the Middle East conflict
6 Realist institutionalism and regional peace: the case of the European Coal and Steel Community
PART III Middle East – from hot war to cold peace – and back to hot (civil) war
7 Why the liberal economic model of international peace failed in the Middle East
8 Hobbes, Locke, and Kant: systemic cultures in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and prospects for peace
9 The Alawi regime during the Syria civil war 2013–2014: from collapse to fragile stability
10 The (de)construction of “economic peace": “economic peace” strategies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: between theory and reality
PART IV Comparative perspectives
11 “Puppets,” domestic institutions, and foreign policy compliance
12 The prerequisites matter: North America’s transition to regional peace
13 “Offensive liberalism”: a critical appraisal
14 The Sunshine policy: between cold war and normal peace
Conclusions
Index