International Relations
"Crocker, Hampson, and Aall have assembled an impressive group of authors to offer a comprehensive assessment of global and regional challenges, with a useful focus on contrasting global scenarios. Their concept of 'peace and conflict diplomacy' is valuable and timely for scholars and practitioners alike."-Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America, former director of policy planning, US Department of State
"A very important book on how the United States should cope with a very different world. Essential for conflict resolution courses."-Roy Licklider, adjunct senior research scholar and professor of political science, Columbia University
Diplomacy in pursuit of peace and security faces severe challenges not seen in decades. The reemergence of strong states, discord in the UN Security Council, destabilizing transnational nonstate actors, closing space for civil society within states, and the weakening of the international liberal order all present new obstacles to diplomacy.
In Diplomacy and the Future of World Order, an international group of experts confronts these challenges to peace and conflict diplomacy-defined as the effort to manage conflicts, cope with great power competition, and deal with threats to the state system itself. In doing so, the authors consider three potential scenarios for world order where key states decide to go it alone, return to a liberal order, or collaborate on a caseby-case basis to address common threats and problems.
These three scenarios are then evaluated through the prisms of regional perspectives and for their potential ramifications for major security threats. Topics include peacekeeping, nuclear nonproliferation, cyber competition, and terrorism. Editors Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall conclude the volume by identifying emerging types of diplomacy that may form the foundation for global peacemaking and conflict management in an uncertain future.
Chester A. Crocker is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He previously served as the assistant secretary for the US Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs.
Fen Osler Hampson is a Chancellor's Professor and professor of international affairs at Carleton University and president of the World Refugee & Migration Council.
Pamela Aall is a senior advisor for conflict prevention and management at the US Institute of Peace.
Contributors: Pamela Aall, Kanti Bajpai, Daniel Benjamin, Hans Binnendijk, Samantha Bradshaw, William J. Burns, Chester A. Crocker, Toby Dalton, Solomon Ayele Dersso, Chas W. Freeman Jr., Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Shadi Hamid, Fen Osler Hampson, Stacie Hoffmann, Lise Morjé Howard, Ana Palacio, See Seng Tan, Emily Taylor, Marcos Tourinho, Dmitri Trenin
