Includes bibliographical references and index.

Leashing the dogs of war / Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall -- Sources of conflict and challenges to global security -- International sources of interstate and intrastate war / Jack S. Levy -- New global dangers / Michael E. Brown -- Arms acquisition and violence : are weapons or people the cause of conflict? / Geoffrey Kemp -- Terrorism and global security / Martha Crenshaw -- The challenge of weak, failing and collapsed states / Robert I. Rotberg -- State making, state breaking, and state failure / Mohammed Ayoob -- Power, social violence, and civil wars / Charles King -- Minorities, nationalists, and islamists : managing communal conflict in the twenty-first century / Ted Robert Gurr -- Turbulent transitions : why emerging democracies go to war / Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- Environmental change, security, and conflict / Nils Petter Gleditsch -- Economic causes of civil conflict and their implications for policy / Paul Collier -- Economic causes of conflict : an overview and some policy implications / Frances Stewart and Graham Brown -- Uses and limits of force in conflict management -- Using force for peace in the age of terror / Lawrence Freedman -- Limits on the use of force / Brian Urquhart -- Yet again : humanitarian intervention and the challenges of "never again" / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Coercive diplomacy, Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin -- Expanding global military capacity to save lives with force / Michael O'Hanlon -- Economic sanctions international peace and security / Chantal de Jonge Oudraat -- Uses and limits of statecraft, diplomacy and soft power in conflict management -- The place of grand strategy, statecraft and power in conflict management / Chester A. Crocker -- Usip framework for success in international intervention / Daniel Serwer and Patricia Thomson -- The place of soft power in state-based conflict management / Joseph S. Nye, jr -- Rule of law in conflict management / Neil Kritz -- Rethinking the "war on terror" : new approaches to conflict prevention and management in the post-9/11 world / Paul B. Stares and Mona Yocoubian -- International mediation / I. William Zartman and Saadia Touval -- Contemporary conflict resolution applications / Louis Kriesberg -- The power of non-official actors in conflict management / Pamela Aall -- Uses and limits of institutions in conflict management -- An institutional architecture for peace / Brian Job -- The United Nations and conflict management : relevant or irrelevant? / Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns -- Successes and challenges in conflict management / Andrew Mack -- New roles for regional organizations / Paul F. Diehl -- Capacity and limits of NGOs as conflict managers / Diana Chigas -- The role of norms, standards, and regimes / Ruth Wedgwood -- The uses and limits of governance in conflict management -- The challenges of imposed democracy / Marina Ottaway -- Peace enforcement or liberal imperialism? / Kimberly Marten -- Economic factors in civil wars : policy considerations / David Malone and Jake Sherman -- Sharing sovereignty : new institutions for collapsed and failing states / Stephen Krasner -- Intervention and the nation-building debate / Fen Osler Hampson and David Mendeloff.