Blood on the Doorstep : The Politics of Preventive Action.

By:

Rubin, Barnett R

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780815776086

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blood on the DoorstepDDC classification:

327.1/7

LOC classification:

JC328.6 -- .R83 2002eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 What Is at Stake? -- 2 Conflicts and Their Causes: Acres of Desolation -- PART ONE - Case Studies -- 3 Burundi and the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa: Strengthless Cures, in Vain -- 4 The South Balkans: Landscape Painted with Blood -- 5 Nigeria: The Mirror of Oil -- 6 The Ferghana Valley: Festering Inner Wounds -- PART TWO - Preventing Violent Conflicts: Analytical Framework and Strategies -- 7 Prevention: Concept and Scope -- 8 Warning: Risk Assessment and Monitoring -- 9 Systemic Prevention -- 10 Targeted Prevention -- 11 Organizing for Prevention -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: Throughout the 1990s, U.S. policymakers by and large thought they could insulate the country from the collapse of distant states and the spread of war and disorder in some of the world's poorest regions. The attacks on September 11, 2001, however, showed that dire conditions in seemingly isolated regions could become incubators for violence that hits America directly. This book, based on Barnett R. Rubin¡'s years of experience as director of the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that initiatives aimed at preventing regional crises must form a key part of the U.S. global security strategy. Drawing on his experience leading CPA projects in the Balkans, Central Asia, Central Africa, and West Africa, as well has his extensive work on Afghanistan, Rubin illustrates concretely how seemingly exotic and distant conflicts are deeply integrated into our global system through the effects of global strategies and markets. These conflicts, the author argues, are harder to contain once they flare up into violence and yet are potentially more subject to prevention by global actors than common wisdom claims.

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Throughout the 1990s, U.S. policymakers by and large thought they could insulate the country from the collapse of distant states and the spread of war and disorder in some of the world's poorest regions. The attacks on September 11, 2001, however, showed that dire conditions in seemingly isolated regions could become incubators for violence that hits America directly. This book, based on Barnett R. Rubin¡'s years of experience as director of the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that initiatives aimed at preventing regional crises must form a key part of the U.S. global security strategy. Drawing on his experience leading CPA projects in the Balkans, Central Asia, Central Africa, and West Africa, as well has his extensive work on Afghanistan, Rubin illustrates concretely how seemingly exotic and distant conflicts are deeply integrated into our global system through the effects of global strategies and markets. These conflicts, the author argues, are harder to contain once they flare up into violence and yet are potentially more subject to prevention by global actors than common wisdom claims.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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