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Sustainable Peace

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Description for Sustainable Peace Paperback. Editor(s): Roeder, P.G.; Rothchild, Donald S. Num Pages: 392 pages, 54. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.

How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions the leaders of ethnic groups, governments, and international organizations face the challenge of designing political arrangements that can simultaneously meet the tests of equal representation, democratic accountability, effective governance, and political stability. At critical junctures in the transition from intense (often violent) conflict, power-sharing arrangements may offer a compromise acceptable to most ethnic elites.

Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild find that these short-term accommodations come with high longer-term costs: the very ... Read more

Contributors: Amit Ahuja, University of Michigan; Eduardo Alemán, University of Houston; Valerie Bunce, Cornell University; Caroline Hartzell, Gettysburg College; Matthew Hoddie, Texas A&M University; Edmond J. Keller, UCLA; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Benjamin Reilly, Australian National University; Philip G. Roeder, University of California, San Diego; Donald Rothchild, University of California, Davis; Timothy D. Sisk, University of Denver; Lahra Smith, UCLA; Christoph Stefes, University of Colorado, Denver; Daniel Treisman, UCLA; Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan; Stephen Watts, Cornell University; Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Université de Montréal

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
574g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489747
SKU
V9780801489747
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About Roger Hargreaves
Philip G. Roeder is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics and coauthor of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy. The late Donald Rothchild was Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He was the author of Managing Ethnic Conflict ... Read more

Reviews for Sustainable Peace
"Those of us who write about civil wars and intrastate conflict must now consider the innovative insights of Sustainable Peace, particularly its rejections of power sharing as a panacea. Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild tease out better, novel, ideas from a range of important cases. We cannot neglect their findings."—Robert I. Rotberg, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Sustainable ... Read more

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