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December 17 - Leashing the Dogs Wins Award
Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World received an Outstanding Academic Title Award by the library journal CHOICE. The Institute congratulates the volume’s editors Chester A. Crocker, member of USIP's board of directors; Fen Osler Hampson, former senior fellow; and Pamela Aall, vice president for domestic programs in the Education and Training Center, and its esteemed contributors on this exceptional achievement.

"This is a massive collection of authoritative and insightful essays by an impressive slate of well known scholars and practitioners in the conflict management field. Forty-two authors contributed 37 chapters to this volume. A full discussion of the scope and depth of these analyses is precluded by space constraints. Nevertheless, the volume wonderfully blends attention to both the theory and practice of interstate and intrastate conflict and conflict management. Contributors examine the major causes of contemporary violence and trends, the role of diplomacy, coercive diplomacy, force, and international law and institutions in conflict management, and draw practical lessons for facing the daunting challenges of state stabilization and nation building. The volume also contains several insightful and critical discussions about the strengths and weaknesses of democracy promotion for curbing armed conflict and terrorism. The ongoing conflict in Iraq and the rise of al-Qaeda and global militia and insurgent forces instigated this study. The persistence of these challenges makes this volume an important benchmark for studying and understanding the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and pitfalls of conflict management in the 21st century. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and practitioners."

—CHOICE

Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association (http://www.cro2.org).

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January 2007

The United States Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the publication of Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World (United States Institute of Peace Press, January 2007).

Recognizing the importance of responding to an ever-changing international relations climate, the gifted team of Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall has created this latest volume to address the sources of contemporary conflict and the array of possible responses to it. In Leashing the Dogs of War, forty-three of the most influential and innovative analysts of international affairs present multiple perspectives on how best to prevent, manage, or resolve conflicts around the world.

Reflecting the greater work of the Institute, the six volumes produced by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall make significant contributions to expanding our knowledge and understanding of international relations and conflict resolution: individually and collectively, they provide some of the best and latest practices, research, and thinking in the field and are highly relevant to foreign affairs practitioners as well as to professors and students. From the classroom to the negotiating table, they are being used far and wide and have received ringing endorsements and praise.

Managing Global Chaos, published in 1996 by the United States Institute of Peace Press, was developed in response to numerous requests by teachers and practitioners in need of a volume that stimulates thinking about the challenges of international conflict in the post-Cold War world. A groundbreaking book—truly the first of its kind—this volume brought a diverse array of voices to bear on complex issues of conflict management and resolution—including the perspectives of government policymakers, nongovernmental officials, and scholars.

Following on the success of Managing Global Chaos and acting on the demand for cutting-edge and comprehensive classroom texts, the editors published Turbulent Peace in 2001 as the update to Managing Global Chaos. Now, in 2007, Leashing the Dogs of War replaces its well-established predecessors to address the tough terrain of today’s international relations landscape.

The Crocker-Hampson-Aall team has also developed three volumes that focus more specifically on aspects of mediation. Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World provides resources and case studies that reflect real, hands-on experiences by mediators in complex settings. Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases lays out the steps involved in tackling the most stubborn of conflicts. Its companion volume, Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict, further identifies and analyzes the defining characteristics and underlying dynamics of intractable conflicts and spotlights more than eight current cases.

For detailed information about these and other USIP Press titles, please visit our bookstore at http://bookstore.usip.org.