Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific: Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution

by Jacob Bercovitch, Karl DeRouen Jr., Paul Bellamy (Contribution by), Alethia Cook (Contribution by), Terry Genet (Contribution by)

Overview

Civil wars and internal conflicts pose the greatest threat to international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in East Asia and the Pacific, which has far more of its share of such conflicts. Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific: Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution, edited by Jacob Bercovitch and Karl DeRouen, Jr., is a book of originally commissioned essays on civil wars which provide a compelling area of inquiry. Many of the Asia-Pacific region's wars are very long (such as in Myanmar), some tend to recur (also in Myanmar); some involve religion (Philippines, Thailand), and some (Aceh, Bougainville, East Timor) of the longest have ended in the last few years. In short, the region presents a variety of interesting dynamics that merit close attention in one volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739148532
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	02/07/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	907 KB

About the Author

Jacob Bercovitch is professor of international relations at the University of Canterbury. Karl DeRouen, Jr. is professor of political science at the University of Alabama.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 List of Tables
Chapter 3 Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 4 Section One: Security and Internal Conflicts in the Region
Chapter 5 Chapter 1: Conflict Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region
Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Nature of Conflict Management in the Asia-Pacific Region
Chapter 7 Chapter 3: The Limits of Peace: Third Parties in Civil Wars in Southeast Asia, 1993–2004
Part 8 Section Two: Features of Conflict in the Region
Chapter 9 Chapter 4: Old Conflicts in a New Era: The Reality of Intractable Conflicts in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 10 Chapter 5: Civil Wars in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Conflict Resolution and the Problem of Recurrence
Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Employment of Islam in Southeast Asian Civil Conflicts
Part 12 Section Three: External Involvement and Conflict Management in the Region
Chapter 13 Chapter 7: Civil War Mediation Progression in South East Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 14 Chapter 8: The World Bank in Regional Conflict in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Chapter 15 Chapter 9: Assessing the Conditions for Interventions in Internal Conflict in East Asia and the Pacific Region
Chapter 16 Chapter 10: The Aceh Case: Track Two Mediation Activities towards Peace
Chapter 17 Chapter 11: Evaluating Success of Peacekeeping Mission: Lessons from East Timor and Solomon Islands
Chapter 18 Chapter 12:Internal Conflict, External Influence: The Case of Myanmar
Part 19 Conclusion
Chapter 20 Chapter 13: Practical Implications for NZ and Australia Regarding the Presence of Internal Conflicts in the Asia-Pacific Region
Chapter 21 About the Contributors
Chapter 22 Index

What People are Saying About This

Paul F. Diehl

This might be the 'Asian Century,' but this collection reminds us that the action is not all centered on China and Japan and that many of the challenges in the region are internal conflict struggles, not simply those of economics. Yet there are reasons for both optimism and caution on what international conflict management efforts can accomplish.

Andrew Mack

This edited volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the causes of war—and peace—in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. It creatively combines case studies of individual conflicts with region-wide conflict trend data enabling a far richer and more comprehensive analysis than either approach on its own.

Rajat Ganguly

Internal conflicts and civil war today pose the most serious challenge to the security of nation-states, particularly those that are weak and fragile. Such conflicts are often fought over competing ethnic, religious and ideological identities and beliefs. The Asia-Pacific region is particularly vulnerable as there are hardly any states in the region that are free from such conflicts. But although the problem of internal conflicts in the Asia-Pacific states is acute, systematic comparative and regional analysis of such conflicts have been lacking in the scholarly literature. Bercovitch and DeRouen Jr.'s edited volume plugs this gap in a major way. The book comprises of a collection of first class essays on the various aspects of internal conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region and ways to manage and resolve them. It should become standard reading for students, scholars and practitioners working in this area.

Editorial Reviews

Internal conflicts and civil war today pose the most serious challenge to the security of nation-states, particularly those that are weak and fragile. Such conflicts are often fought over competing ethnic, religious and ideological identities and beliefs. The Asia-Pacific region is particularly vulnerable as there are hardly any states in the region that are free from such conflicts. But although the problem of internal conflicts in the Asia-Pacific states is acute, systematic comparative and regional analysis of such conflicts have been lacking in the scholarly literature. Bercovitch and DeRouen Jr.'s edited volume plugs this gap in a major way. The book comprises of a collection of first class essays on the various aspects of internal conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region and ways to manage and resolve them. It should become standard reading for students, scholars and practitioners working in this area.

Rajat Ganguly

This edited volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the causes of war—and peace—in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. It creatively combines case studies of individual conflicts with region-wide conflict trend data enabling a far richer and more comprehensive analysis than either approach on its own.

Andrew Mack

This might be the 'Asian Century,' but this collection reminds us that the action is not all centered on China and Japan and that many of the challenges in the region are internal conflict struggles, not simply those of economics. Yet there are reasons for both optimism and caution on what international conflict management efforts can accomplish.

Paul F. Diehl