Incentivizing Peace: How International Organizations Can Help Prevent Civil Wars in Member Countries

by Jaroslav Tir, Johannes Karreth

Overview

Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics. While mediation, intervention, and peacekeeping have produced some positive results in helping to end civil wars, they fall short in preventing them in the first place. In Incentivizing Peace, Jaroslav Tir and Johannes Karreth show that considering civil wars from a developmental perspective presents opportunities to prevent the escalation of nascent armed conflicts into full-scale civil wars. The authors demonstrate that highly-structured intergovernmental organizations (IGOs such as the World Bank, IMF, or regional development banks) are particularly well-positioned to engage in civil war prevention. When such IGOs have been actively engaged in nations on the edge, their potent economic tools have helped to steer rebel-government interactions away from escalation and toward peaceful settlement. Incentivizing Peace provides enlightening case evidence that IGO participation is a key to better predicting, and thus preventing, the outbreak of civil war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190699529
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/21/2018
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jaroslav Tir is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of over two dozen scholarly studies on domestic and international armed conflicts, conflict management, territorial disputes, environmental security and cooperation, and rally around the flag dynamics. He is also a recipient of National Science Foundation and Fulbright grants.

Johannes Karreth is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international organizations, military interventions, and political violence. Additional scholarly work includes analyses of how voters respond to changes in the landscape of political parties and immigration.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 CivilWar Management
3 IGOs and CivilWars
4 Empirical Record
5 The Logic of Institutional Influence
6 Case Evidence
7 Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"Th[is] book significantly advance[s] our understanding of the determinants of peace in conflict-affected countries." — Susanna P.Campbell, American University, Perspectives on Politics

"The book, through sophisticated research, clearly demonstrates that conflict escalation can be prevented if a country is connected to HSIGOs." — Erich P. Schellhammer, Royal Roads University, The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies

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