By Anna Ohanyan
ISBN-10: 0804793867
ISBN-13: 9780804793865
Drawing upon the instances of the South Caucasus, the Western Balkans, primary the US, South East Asia, and northerly eire, Networked Regionalism as clash Management deals a theoretical and useful option to this deadlock through arguing for nearby collective interventions that contain a long term reengineering of present clash administration infrastructure at the flooring. Such ways were attracting the eye of students and practitioners alike but, up to now, those options have hardly concerned greater than basic prescriptions for neighborhood cooperation among grassroots actors and conventional international relations. particularly, says Anna Ohanyan, in simple terms the cultivation and institution of neighborhood peace structures grants an efficient direction towards clash administration in those standoffs in such intractably divided regions.
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Any effort to address the main debates within regional studies makes possible their translation into the field of conflict management. One of the main purposes of the next section, then, is to expose students of conflict management and peace and conflict studies to some of the existing fault lines in the regionalism literature within international political economy. Political Economy of Regional Integration The significance of regional studies, and the regional level of analysis, ebbed and flowed in the twentieth century.
Instead, mediation and negotiation—the two most common instruments of conflict management—are geared toward finding a political solution, which in some conflicts is considered a precondition for the deployment of economic instruments. The narrow political emphasis and sovereignty bias drastically reduce the possibilities of innovative responses to frozen conflicts, as I argue later in this book. Even when civil society actors are funded, the international community tends to produce two parallel and rather disconnected sets of networks, state-centric and civil society–focused, that are poorly coordinated.
All of this would have been impossible without the central node in my network, my husband, Aram, whose selflessness has made this “intercontinental year” in our family work well. You are my toughest critic, and I would not have it any other way. —Happy Birthday, Isabelle and Elise! Introduction Academics frequently use numbers of active and “frozen” conflicts as a proxy for capturing the state of war and peace around the world. Drawing from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at Uppsala University, Themnér and Wallensteen (Themnér and Wallensteen 2012) identified thirty-seven armed conflicts in 2011, for which a minimum of twenty-five battle-related deaths were recorded, and they identified thirty-one armed conflicts in 2010.