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This topical textbook outlines conflict, crisis, and war as central challenges in the international security arena, exploring their history, evolution, nature, dynamics, and trends. Patrick James and James M. Scott discuss the major approaches to analysing conflict, crisis, and war and identify the key avenues for managing them.
Engaging with major scholarly work, the textbook combines scientific realism, analytic eclecticism, and the multilevel and graphic approach of systemism to establish the meaning and importance of theory and linkages across levels of analysis. Reflecting on policy and practice, James and Scott explore system, state and individual level explanations of conflict, crisis, and war, and review the nature and effectiveness of key approaches to their management and prevention. They ultimately advocate for an integrated approach that addresses and connects multiple levels of analysis for a more thorough and nuanced understanding.
Key Features:
Applies an innovative approach with unique visual tools
Encourages comprehension of major concepts, theories, and practices and critical thinking
Includes core feature boxes which present real-world applications to illustrate a concept and reflect on a point of explanation in greater depth
Theoretically informed and conceptually innovative, this textbook is vital to students and scholars of international politics, international relations, and terrorism and security.
Contents
Contents
1 Understanding the challenges of conflict, crisis, and war
PART I UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM
2 Conflict, crisis, and war in world politics
3 The evolution of conflict, crisis, and war
4 The issues
PART II EXPLAINING THE PROBLEM
5 System-level explanations
6 State-level explanations
7 Individual-level explanations
8 Understanding crises
9 Understanding civil wars
10 Multi-level explanations
PART III COPING WITH THE PROBLEM
11 Taking matters into their own hands: state-based approaches to
managing conflict, crisis, and war
12 Working with and through others: IGOs, NGOs, and conflict, crisis,
and war
13 What do we know about conflict, crisis, and war?
14 References
