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Myth and Reality in International Politics

Recent generations have experienced dramatic improvements in the quality of human life across the globe. Wars between states are fought less frequently and are less lethal. Food is more plentiful and more easily accessed. In most parts of the world, birthrates are down and life expectancy up. Significantly fewer people live in extreme poverty, relative to the overall population. Statistics would argue that the human race has never before flourished as it has in this moment.

And yet, even with this progress, we face a number of seemingly intractable challenges to the welfare of both states and individuals, including:

Governmental instability undermining the lives of citizens, both within and beyond their borders;

Persistent and recurring intrastate conflict due to ineffective conflict management strategies;

Marginally successful development efforts and growing income inequality, both within and between nations, as a result of uncoordinated and ineffective global development strategies;

Internecine conflict in multiethnic societies, manifested by exclusion, discrimination, and ultimately violence, the inevitable consequence of an insufficient focus on managing the inherent tensions in diverse societies;

Global climate change with the possibility of catastrophic long-term consequences, following an inability to effectively come to terms with and respond to the impact of human activity on our environment.

These challenges require a newly collaborative, intentional, and systematic approach. This book offers a blueprint for how to get there, calling for increased leadership responsibility, clarity of mission, and empowerment of states and individuals. It is designed to transform lofty but often vague agendas into concrete, measurable progress. It believes in the capacity of humanity to rise to the occasion, to come together to address these increasingly critical global problems, and offers one way forward.

Jonathan Wilkenfeld is Professor of Government and Politics, and Director of the ICONS Simulation Project at the University of Maryland. His research and writing has addressed conflict and crisis, negotiation and mediation, with regional foci in the Middle East and China.

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Myth and Reality in International Politics

Meeting Global Challenges through Collective Action

Jonathan Wilkenfeld

First published 2016

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Contents

3 Instability, Democracy, and Regime Consistency

Jonathan Wilkenfeld is Professor of Government and Politics, and Director of the ICONS Simulation Project at the University of Maryland. He was a founder with Michael Brecher of the International Crisis Behavior Project. His research and writing has addressed conflict and crisis, negotiation and mediation, with regional foci in the Middle East and China. His recent research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Homeland Security, and by the Folke Bernadotte Academy (Sweden). His recent books include Peace and conflict 2014 (with David Backer and Paul Huth), International negotiation in a complex world (4th edition, with Brigid Starkey and Mark Boyer), and Mediating international crises (with Kathleen Young, David Quinn, and Victor Asal).

This book pulls together challenges to human security that I have written on or at least thought about carefully at various stages of my academic careerconflict, ethnicity, democratization, development, and climate change. With this book, I hope to reach academic and policy readers, as well as the public at large. Only through a concerted collective effort by scientists, policy makers, and an informed public throughout the world will we make sustained progress on the many global challenges facing us now and for future generations.

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