Stopping wars : defining the obstacles to cease-fire / James D.D. Smith.
1995
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Author
Title
Stopping wars : defining the obstacles to cease-fire / James D.D. Smith.
Published
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.
Call Number
JX5173 Sm61 1995
ISBN
081332467X
Description
xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)31739265
Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1
The Long and Winding Road to Peace
3
2
Power and the Willingness to Settle: "Why stop now?"
15
3
The Avoidance of Weakness and the Search for Strength: "WE will look weak"
57
4
Political and Cognitive Dissonance: "WE'd never get away with it"
73
5
Making the Decision to Stop Fighting: "WE didn't consider it; THEY wouldn't listen; WE couldn't agree"
103
6
Unbridgeable Divides and Uncontrollable Armies - the Inability to Cease Fire: "WE can't give them what they want; WE can't stop fighting"
123
7
The Cease-fire Proposal - Construction, Acceptance, and Failure: "WE can't make/accept the offer; The agreement didn't work"
147
8
Mediator Impartiality and the "Two-Hat" Dilemma: "YOU are not objective"
181
9
The Imposed Cease-fire: "YOU can't make us"
217
10
The Road Ahead
251
Appendix 1: Notes on the Definition of "Cease-fire"
265
Appendix 2: "Why can't they just stop fighting?"
271
Appendix 3: Case Study Chronologies
275
Bibliography
291
Index
303
About the Book and Author
309