Description
Managing International Crises contains original essays on the nature of international crises and how states behave during them. What effects do different kinds of diplomatic moves have on crises? Does a crisis have an inner logic, a dynamic of its own? What is the best way of managing these conflicts? Theoretical advances and new empirical research are offered by distinguished scholars. The book is sure to stimulate thinking on crises management.' -- "Nonaligned World, Vol 1 No 3, July-September 1983 " This collection brings together a comprehensive, authoritative, and eclectic survey of theorization, research, and practice dealing with crises as salient international events...the book is impressively readable, and the authors employ illustrative materials that require only modest background on the part of the reader. Collections of scholarly papers do not often lend themselves to classroom use, but this one does. The volume is also likely to help crisis analysts in different cultures to orient themselves more readily to the state of knowledge in the crisis management field.' -- "The American Political Science Review, February 1984 " ...the book is impressively readable, and the authors employ illustrative materials that require only modest background on the part of the reader. Collections of scholarly papers do not often lend themselves to classroom use, but this one does.' -- "The American Political International Relations
