Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics (Suny Series in Global Politics)

Examines the prospects for collective management of international conflict, identifying the international and domestic conditions under which it will and will not tend to work and exploring whether the end of the Cold War will make its success more or less likely than before.

For several decades the debate over collective security-the idea that alliances are problematic and that all nations should pledge to come to the aid of any nation that is a victim of aggression-has been polarized. Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics probes the international and domestic conditions under which collective security tends to work or not, and questions if the end of the Cold War makes success more or less likely than before. The contributors conclude that collective conflict management is possible under specific situations, as they enumerate various domestic and international requisites that circumscribe such possibilities.

Joseph Lepgold is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Friends in Need: Burdensharing in the Persian Gulf War and The Declining Hegemon: The United States and European Defense, 1960-1990. Thomas G. Weiss is Associate Director of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University and Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). He is the editor of several books, including The United Nations and Civil Wars and Collective Security in a Changing World.