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- Presents nuanced policy prescriptions—centred on prediction, targeted inclusion, continued negotiation, and coercion
- Offers third party oversight that will aid policymakers in preventing and managing spoilers
- Supplies an international analysis based on a large-N dataset with discussions of cases from around the globe
- Analyses 300 civil war peace agreements in the post-Cold War world
Part of the book series: Rethinking Political Violence (RPV)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace agreements subsequently unravel, ushering in renewed conflict. In response, important international actors have become increasingly involved in conflict mediation, peacekeeping, and post-conflict reconstruction around the globe. Policymakers and scholars alike have identified spoilers—violent actors who often rise up and attempt to challenge or derail the peace process—as one of the greatest threats to peace. Using a mixed-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of a newly created, global dataset of spoiling, Reiter demonstrates that this type of violence occurs in predictable circumstances and only represents a threat to peace under specific conditions. The book also shows that spoiling often serves to bring agreement flaws and implementation failures to light andin turn forces actors to recommit to an accord, thereby strengthening peace in the long term.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA
Andrew G. Reiter
About the author
Andrew G. Reiter is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. He is the coauthor of Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy (2010) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the topics of conflict resolution, post-conflict peacebuilding, and transitional justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fighting Over Peace
Book Subtitle: Spoilers, Peace Agreements, and the Strategic Use of Violence
Authors: Andrew G. Reiter
Series Title: Rethinking Political Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40102-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40101-0Published: 19 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82033-0Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40102-7Published: 19 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2752-8588
Series E-ISSN: 2752-8596
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 190
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Peace Studies, Diplomacy, Conflict Studies