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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 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 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. -- Diehl, Paul F.

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 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, director, Human Security Report Project, Simon Fraser University 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, author of Small Wars and Insurgencies and senior lecturer at Murdoch University 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, editor of International Interactions and Henning Larsen professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-C

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, director of the Human Security Report Project at Simon Fraser University 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, author of Small Wars and Insurgencies and senior lecturer at Murdoch University 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, editor of International Interactions and Henning Larsen professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-C

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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.

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