Practicing Peace

Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America

Aarie Glas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-763322-9 (ISBN)

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Southeast Asia and South America are regions made up of largely illiberal states lacking stabilizing great powers or collective identities. But despite persistent territorial disputes, regime instability, and interstate rivalries, both regions have avoided large-scale war for decades. What accounts for the lack of war in these regions, and importantly, how are conflicts managed?

In Practicing Peace, Aarie Glas offers a comparative regional perspective on conflict management and diplomacy in Southeast Asia and South America. Glas finds that regional interstate relations are shaped by particular habitual dispositions--discrete sets of processual and substantive qualities of relations understood and enacted by diplomatic communities of practice. Different habitual dispositions in each case shape conflict management and regionalism in important ways, and lead to a tolerance of limited regional violence. Glas expands on new developments in social International Relations theory to develop a practice-oriented and interpretive account of regional relations and explores the existence of habitual dispositions across crucial cases of regional conflict management, including the Southeast Asian response to the Preah Vihear dispute in 2011 and the South American response to the Cenepa conflict in 1995.

Drawing on novel research methods and detailed interviews with regional practitioners, Practicing Peace challenges existing scholarly claims of peace in Southeast Asia and South America. Instead, Glas argues that officials successfully manage pervasive conflict short of war in both regions. He provides an in-depth look into how diplomacy unfolds and peace is practiced within diplomatic communities, from government actors to organizational officials, as they attempt to respond to and resolve territorial disputes.

Aarie Glas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and faculty associate in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. His research examines norms and practices of conflict management and governance within regional organizations in the Global South, with a particular focus on ASEAN, alongside social IR theory and interpretive research methods. His work has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, and PS: Political Science and Politics, among other outlets.

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Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Habitual Dispositions and Conflict Management

Chapter 3. Uncovering Meaning and Practice in Regional Diplomacy

Chapter 4. Practicing Peace in Southeast Asia

Chapter 5. Practicing Peace in South America

Chapter 6. Comparisons, Contributions, and Conclusions

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 160 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-763322-6 / 0197633226
ISBN-13	978-0-19-763322-9 / 9780197633229
Zustand	Neuware