International intervention in local conflicts crisis management and conflict resolution since the cold war

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-308) and index.

From bipolar to unipolar order : system structure and conflict resolution / Janice Gross Stein -- Same agenda, different results : the UN interventions in Cambodia and Somalia after the Cold War / Chen Kertcher -- External mediation and internal ownership : the Belfast and St Andrews Agreements compared / Adrian Guelke -- International engagement and the Yugoslav war of dissolution / James Gow -- The reactive crisis management of the European Union in the Western Balkans : policy objectives, capabilities and effectiveness / Stefan Wolff and Annemarie Peen Rodt -- American Middle East strategy and the Bush legacy / Robert J. Lieber -- Reflections on French experiences in the Middle East / Jean-Pierre Filiu -- The Reagan-Bush administrations and the Middle East : institutional and bureaucratic rivalries / Robert David Johnson -- EU efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict / Georg Simonis -- Military intervention and democratization : global order and the radical Islamist challenge to Lebanon / Eyal Zisser -- The geopolitical dimension of Sunni-Shiʹi sectarianism in the Middle East / Uzi Rabi and Brandon Friedman -- Egyptian and Saudi intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2006-09) : local powers' mediation compared / Joseph Kostiner and Chelsi Mueller -- Lost faith, forfeited trust : Afghan responses to post-9/11 international intervention in state-building and insurgency / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- Pious words and puny deeds : the international community and mass atrocities / Rajan Menon.