Warning about War
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Warning about War

Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy

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eBook - PDF

Warning about War

Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy

About this book

What does it take for warnings about violent conflict and war to be listened to, believed and acted upon? Why are warnings from some sources noticed and largely accepted, while others are ignored or disbelieved? These questions are central to considering the feasibility of preventing harm to the economic and security interests of states. Challenging conventional accounts that tend to blame decision-makers' lack of receptivity and political will, the authors offer a new theoretical framework explaining how distinct 'paths of persuasion' are shaped by a select number of factors, including conflict characteristics, political contexts, and source-recipient relations. This is the first study to systematically integrate persuasion attempts by analysts, diplomats and senior officials with those by journalists and NGO staff. Its ambitious comparative design encompasses three states (the US, UK, and Germany) and international organisations (the UN, EU, and OSCE) and looks in depth at four conflict cases: Rwanda (1994), Darfur (2003), Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014).

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Chapter 1 Conflict Warnings as Persuasion Attempts
  10. Chapter 2 A Theory of Conflict Warning as Persuasion in Foreign Policy
  11. Chapter 3 Inside-Up Warnings within States and International Organisations
  12. Chapter 4 Outside-In Warnings: Persuasion by NGOs
  13. Chapter 5 Outside-In Warnings: Persuasion by Journalists and Media Organisations
  14. Chapter 6 (Mis-)identifying Warnings and the Problem of Hindsight Bias: The Case of the Rwandan Genocide
  15. Chapter 7 What Makes Individual Officials Persuasive Warners?: The Case of the 2004 Darfur Crisis
  16. Chapter 8 Explaining Differences in Persuasiveness: The EU Members States and the 2008 Five-Day War in Georgia
  17. Chapter 9 Warning within EU Institutions and the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict of 2013–2014
  18. Chapter 10 When Are Warnings Heeded and What Can Warners Do?
  19. References
  20. Index