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.
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 practices, James and Scott explore system, state and individual level explanations of, and approaches to, managing and preventing conflict, crisis, and war. 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.
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In this timely, comprehensive, and thought-provoking book, Patrick James and James M. Scott offer an integrated approach to the study of conflict processes that brings together multiple levels of analysis. They masterfully blend existing scholarly work with unique visual tools and offer a wealth of illuminating examples from the real world. This authoritative text puts the pieces of the puzzle together in a highly accessible way, making it an extraordinary resource for all who are concerned with conflict in the contemporary global system. -- Zeynep Taydas, Clemson University, USA 'Conflicts escalate from crisis to war due to domestic, regional, and international influences. Most approaches ignore this complexity or are too technical for non-specialists. The authors employ graphic analysis supplementing words with images so the complexity of international conflict is part of the theorizing yet is understandable by all.' -- Douglas Lemke, Pennsylvania State University, US
Contents1 Understanding the challenges of conflict, crisis, and war PART I UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM2 Conflict, crisis, and war in world politics 3 The evolution of conflict, crisis, and war 4 The issues PART II EXPLAINING THE PROBLEM5 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 PROBLEM11 Taking matters into their own hands: state-based approaches tomanaging 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
Patrick James, Patrick James, Dornsife Dean's Professer Emeritus, School of International Relations, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California and James M. Scott, University Professor and Chair, Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University, USA
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