Ways Out of War

An exploration of the individual work of ten diplomats who were charged with negotiating conclusions to intractable conflicts in the Middle East and Balkans, this book is the first study to combine the outlooks of practitioners and academics on new forms of war, especially asymmetrical warfare between state and non-state actors.

KARIN AGGESTAM Professor of Political Science and the director of Peace and Conflict Studies, Lund University, Sweden CECILIA ALBIN Professor of Peace and Conflict Research in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden SUMANTRA BOSE Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK INGRID O. BUSTERUD Fellow of the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, Norway CRAIG DAIGLE Professor in the Department of History, City College of New York, USA MONA FIXDAL Researcher in the Department of History, University of Oslo, Norway JAN WILLEM HONIG Senior Lecturer in War tudies at King's College, London, UK; Visiting Professor of military strategy at the Swedish National Defence College, and Senior Visiting Researcher at the Department for Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden PETER VIGGO JACOBSEN Lectuerer at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ANDREAS JARBLAD PhD student in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden HELGE PHARO Professor of History in the Department of History, University of Oslo, Norway ANNE JULIE SEMB Associate professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway HILDE HENRIKSEN WAAGE Professor of History in the Department of History, University of Oslo and senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway JAY WINTER Professor of History in the Department of History, Yale University, USA TAMARA WITTES Senior fellow and the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute