Security Guarantees: Additional Resources

These references supplement the Knowledge Base Essay, Security Guarantees.

Additional Explanations of the Underlying Concepts:

Online (Web) Sources

"Incentives and Security Guarantees: Problems and Possible Solutions." , 2005
Available at: http://www.sipri.org/contents/expcon/gcs2-2.html/view?searchterm= [Backup Link]

This article discusses negative and positive security guarantees in relation to preventing the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons.

Abrosimov, Viacheslav. Preventing Missile Proliferation: Incentives and Security Guarantees.
Available at: http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/dd57/57abros.htm [Backup Link]
This web-page is a summary of the Second International Working Meeting of Experts on the Problem of Creating a Global Control System for the Non-Proliferation of Missiles and Missile Technologies in 2001. It particularly focuses on non-military responses to missile proliferation, such as economic incentives and security assurances.

Offline (Print) Sources

Gardner, Hall. "Aligning for the Future: Assertive Unilateralism or Concert of Powers?." Harvard International Review , December 1, 2003.

Rothchild, Donald S. Durable Peace After Civil War: The Structuring of Ethnic Interactions.

Stedman, Stephen John, Donald S. Rothchild and Elizabeth M. Cousens, eds. Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.
Ending Civil Wars is divided into two main parts. The first part of the volume is devoted to exploring and explaining the theories and complexities of implementing peace agreements. The second part of the book is devoted to case studies that explore the theories developed in the first part. The book as a whole is an excellent source for people who are not familiar with the strategies of peace implementation and the difficulties inherent in ending civil wars.

Hartzell, Caroline. "Explaining the Stability of Negotiated Settlements to Intrastate Wars." Journal of Conflict Resolution 43:1, January 1, 1999.
"Although the majority of civil wars end when one warring party achieves a victory over the other, negotiated agreements are growing more common as a means of ending intrastate conflict. To explain why some negotiated settlements prove stable and others do not, scholars have examined the impact of factors such as superpower conflict, group identities, and third-party guarantors. This article argues that those negotiated settlements that are the most extensively institutionalized--that is, that provide institutional guarantees for the security threats antagonists face as they move toward a situation of centralized state power--are the ones most likely to prove stable. An analysis of all settlements negotiated to end intrastate conflicts during the period between 1945 and 1997 supports this proposition."--abstract

Doyle, Michael W. and Nicholas Sambanis. "International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis." American Political Science Review 94:4, 2000.

Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques. Herndon, VA: USIP Press, August 1, 1997.
This book assesses the usefulness and limitations of the skills and methods needed for international peacemaking. Along with describing traditional approaches, newer, "nonofficial" approaches are also discussed. Primary Link

Zartman, I. William, ed. Preventive Negotiation: Avoiding Conflict Escalation. Rowman & Littlefield, December 28, 2000.
This work examines the characteristics of preventive diplomacy, focusing on the fact that negotiation lies at the heart of the pursuit. The work reviews how preventive negotiation has been practiced by looking at specific issues to which the practice has been applied. Eleven different authors contribute essays on topics including "boundary problems, territorial claims, ethnic conflict, divided states, state disintegration, cooperative disputes, trade wars, transboundary environmental disputes, global natural disasters, global security conflicts, and labor disputes. The editor's conclusion draws out general themes about the nature of preventive diplomacy." -Amazon.com

Steinbruner, John D. Principles of Global Security. Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institute Press, April 2000.
This work discusses how major societal changes, namely in information technology and the globalization of the economic system, may alter the practice of war or "international security". The work attempts to anticipate the major implications of these transformations for security policy and to stimulate productive thinking among policymakers seeking to reshape the legacies of the cold war with a new conceptualization of international security.

Jones, Bruce D. "The Challenges of Strategic Coordination: Containing Opposition and Sustaining Implementation of Peace Agreements in Civil Wars." , June 2001.

de Chastelain, John. "The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland." In Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World. Edited by Crocker, Chester A., Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds. Herndon, VA: USIP Press, 1999.
"The aim of this chapter is to review the period between the start of the work of the International Body in December 1995 and the attainment of the Good Friday Agreement of April 10, 1998. The chapter is written from the personal perspective of the author, who was a member of the internaitonal team involved in both the decommissioning review and the chairing of various aspects of the political process, as well as the chairman of the decommissioning body still engaged in working to achieve its mandate."

Agha, Hussein and Robert Malley. "The Last Negotiation." Foreign Affairs 81:3, 2002.

Chyba, Christopher F. "Toward Biological Security." Foreign Affairs 81:3, 2002.

Doyle, Michael W. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, June 1997.
This work offers a general survey of the key schools of Western sociopolitical thought and theory. The author focuses on the intellectual traditions of realism, liberalism, and socialism, employing the perspectives of key thinkers to illustrate each point of view.

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Examples Illustrating this Topic:

Online (Web) Sources

Ben-Gurion, David. Ben-Gurion Demands Security Guarantees. Jewish Virtual Library.
Available at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/bgsinai1.html [Backup Link]
In a review of the political and military situation, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion explained why Israel was demanding real and effective guarantees from the United Nations for the safeguarding of Israel's rights to navigate in the Suez Canal and the Straits of Tiran. He also dealt with the special position of the Gaza Strip. Excerpts follow on the website.

Lode, Kare. "Mali's Peace Process: Context, Analysis and Evaluation." , 1900
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This case study illustrates the importance of civilian security guarantees as well as the multiple relevant levels of importance for designing peace agreements. In the case of Mali, peace was not sustainable until local actors could give local security guarantees.

Offline (Print) Sources

Ahmed, Samina. "Security Dilemmas of Nuclear-armed Pakistan." Third World Quarterly 21:5, 2000.

Pelcovits, N. A. "Security Guarantees in a Middle East Settlement." Foreign Policy Papers 2:5, 1976.

Dowty, Alan. The Role of Great Power Guarantees in International Peace Agreements. Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, 1974.
Dowty details the evolution of great power guarantees from the 19th century to present. He goes on to offer an assessment of the role and value of great power guarantees in peace agreements among smaller states. Lastly, Dowty applies this theory of great power guarantees to the Arab-Israeli conflict (c1974).

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Audiovisual Materials on this Topic:

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Security Council . First Run Icarus Films. 1982.
The film reviews several United Nations Security Council cases involving disarmament and arms limitation agreements, security guarantees, deadlines, and sanctions. It explains the role formal intermediaries and elite leaders play in the enacting and enforcing of UN policies. Primary Link [Backup Link]

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