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When it comes to conflict resolution, is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Leading scholars lay out an analytical and methodological framework for evaluating this question, and case studies on global hotspots from Bosnia to Somalia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and El Salvador (among others) put it to the test.

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• List of Tables(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xiii)
• Acronyms(p. xv)
• Maps(p. xix)
• 1 Comparing Costs of Prevention and Costs of Conflict: Toward a New Methodology(p. 1)
• Part 1 Failed Prevention
• 2 Bosnia(p. 25)
• 3 Rwanda(p. 53)
• 4 Somalia(p. 75)
• 5 Haiti(p. 91)
• 6 The Persian Gulf(p. 109)
• Part 2 Initial Prevention
• 7 Macedonia(p. 131)
• 8 Slovakia(p. 147)
• Part 3 Mid-Course Prevention
• 9 Cambodia(p. 173)
• 10 El Salvador(p. 199)
• Part 4 Conclusion
• 11 The Case for Conflict Prevention(p. 221)
• Notes(p. 233)
• Index(p. 267)
• About the Contributors(p. 277)

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CHOICE Review

Brown and Rosecrance's edited volume is a model of structured, focused comparison across a range of case studies. The distinguished authors analyze a variety of cases of recent domestic and international conflicts--Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti, the Persian Gulf, Macedonia, Slovakia, Cambodia, and El Salvador. The goal is to convince policy makers--generally reluctant to intervene in such conflicts before they reach a breaking point--that the costs of early preventive action are much lower than the costs imposed on outside powers once conflicts are actually under way. A rigorous methodology to test this proposition is developed and applied across the entire set of cases. Costs are calculated in terms of the refugee burden, direct economic and economic opportunity costs, military expenditures, instability (ethnic radicalization, drug trafficking, etc.), and the costs of humanitarian relief efforts and conflict resolution operations. In addition to its exercise in hypothesis testing, the book offers a valuable set of case histories, complete with maps and extensive documentation. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. J. L. Twigg; Virginia Commonwealth University

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Mike Blakley is a principal research fellow at the Center for International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department.
Michael Brown is associate professor and director of research for the National Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Renee de Nevers is a program officer in arms reduction and security in the Program on Global Security and Sustainability at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Richard Rosecrance is professor of political science and director of the Center for International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Andrea Kathryn Talentino is a Sawyer Seminar Fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University.
Bradley Thayer is visiting assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.