Chester A Crocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 81856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chester A Crocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chester A |
| FAMILY NAME | Crocker |
| SIGNATURE | CROCKER C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Politics and International Relations
Politics and International Relations
Politics and International Relations
Christopher S. Browning. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. £29.99/C$39.95. 240 pp
Politics and International Relations
Endings and Surprises of the Russia–Ukraine War
It is unclear how the Russia–Ukraine war will unfold in the east or the south, or how recent Ukrainian successes will affect Russia’s future course. However the war eventually ends, it will have fundamental implications for global order. It is important, therefore, to imagine how it might end, with special attention paid to the potential for strategic surprises. Despite Ukraine’s stunning victories in the east, a continuing war of attrition could…
A New Concert? Diplomacy for a Chaotic World
A new ‘concert’ diplomacy is needed to foster informal, minilateral constellations of relevant actors operating alongside formal institutions of global governance
South Africa Into The 1980s
The question of South Africa's future has become a paramount issue in global politics. This book examines the position of South Africa as it faces the 1980s—its strengths, its weaknesses, and the probable influences of other states on South Africa in the years to come. The authors share a common interest in an analytical approach to a topic often argued with more emotion than rationality. They discuss South Africa's internal situation, with parti…
South Africa into The 1980s
The Shifting Sands of Peacemaking: Challenges of Multiparty Mediation
Multiparty mediation, which occurs when two or more third parties cooperate or compete in helping antagonists negotiate a conflict settlement, carries both risks and rewards as a conflict management strategy. Cooperating multiple third parties can increase the chances of crafting an agreement, band together to create greater pressure on the conflict parties to reach agreement, and supply outside resources to help implement the negotiated agreemen…
The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift
Today's disorder is measured in opportunities lost, problems left to fester and power vacuums left to implode
A Global Security Vacuum Half-filled: Regional Organizations, Hybrid Groups and Security Management
At a time when the United Nations and key powerful states are pulling back from robust engagement in conflict management, regional organizations and ad hoc groupings of diverse organizations – collective conflict management initiatives – are stepping into the vacuum. In order to understand these two approaches – and why and when they may be operating together – this article compares them as they affect three significant questions and challenges i…
Thoughts on the Conflict Management Field after 30 Years
This article surveys the emergence of conflict management from the academic and policy shadows into a far more prominent field of inquiry and practice. As the barriers to entry into third party roles collapsed at the end of the Cold War, the field of conflict management expanded, diversified, and fragmented into a range of practice areas (scholarly, policy-oriented, and operational). Four phases of this evolution are identified. An increasingly c…
Collective conflict management: A New Formula for Global Peace and Security Cooperation
This article surveys current security challenges and identifies obstacles to effective global and regional responses and cooperation in an era when security has become increasingly divisible. The new situation is partly explained by the complexity and variety of security challenges, both traditional and new, and by the linkages between them. It argues that a new pattern of improvised, ad hoc and often case-specific security mechanisms has develop…
A dubious template for US foreign policy
The global war on terror is a dubious template for the security challenges faced by the United States because it distorts the focus of policy and exaggerates the effectiveness of military power. A grand strategy cannot rest solely on the idea of ‘taking out’ specific sets of bad guys and fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction. It is essential, as the Iran case demonstrates, to get at intractable political tensions and frozen geopoliti…
Engaging Failing States
A Crowded Stage: Liabilities and Benefits of Multiparty Mediation
In todays' environment, the international response to conflict often entails multiple mediators as well as other third-party actors such as peacekeeping forces, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and lone operators. Such a profusion of actors has often made peacemaking efforts messy, difficult, and at times chaotic. The vicious nature of internal conflicts, however, and the high costs for the international community of fa…
A Poor Case for Quitting: Mistaking Incompetence for Interventionism
How to think about ethnic conflict
Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict
Making Peace Settlements Work
African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking
The Lessons of Somalia: Not Everything Went Wrong
ing from the failed Somalia enterprise? Is failure the right term to describe the U.S. and U.N. military intervention? If so, what is it that failed? Appraisals of the Somalia operation vary widely. Some disparage it as a media driven spectacle of misguided interna tionalism that ignored the pitfalls of intervention in alien places lacking civil order and legitimate political institutions. Some see Somalia as an almost welcome
Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War
Southern African peace‐making
High noon in southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood
Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict
High noon in southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood
Making Peace Settlements Work
Military Dependence: The Colonial Legacy in Africa
Thepast five years have seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the African military by scholars, journalists, and policy-makers. This trend is the direct result of the orgy ofcoup d'états, beginning in 1965, which have toppled governments of all political hues in every major region except white-dominated Southern Africa. As this article is written, well over one-third of the O.A.U.'s membership is under military rule, and there is litt…
Engaging Failing States
South Africa: Strategy for Change
The Shifting Sands of Peacemaking: Challenges of Multiparty Mediation
Multiparty mediation, which occurs when two or more third parties cooperate or compete in helping antagonists negotiate a conflict settlement, carries both risks and rewards as a conflict management strategy. Cooperating multiple third parties can increase the chances of crafting an agreement, band together to create greater pressure on the conflict parties to reach agreement, and supply outside resources to help implement the negotiated agreemen…
The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift
Today's disorder is measured in opportunities lost, problems left to fester and power vacuums left to implode
Collective conflict management: A New Formula for Global Peace and Security Cooperation
This article surveys current security challenges and identifies obstacles to effective global and regional responses and cooperation in an era when security has become increasingly divisible. The new situation is partly explained by the complexity and variety of security challenges, both traditional and new, and by the linkages between them. It argues that a new pattern of improvised, ad hoc and often case-specific security mechanisms has develop…
A Crowded Stage: Liabilities and Benefits of Multiparty Mediation
In todays' environment, the international response to conflict often entails multiple mediators as well as other third-party actors such as peacekeeping forces, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and lone operators. Such a profusion of actors has often made peacemaking efforts messy, difficult, and at times chaotic. The vicious nature of internal conflicts, however, and the high costs for the international community of fa…
African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking
Southern African peace‐making
Southern Africa: Eight Years Later
time that this phrase was self-evidently consistent with main stream U.S. internationalism and essential to the very meaning of activist diplomacy. I recognized that there was a major risk in suggesting that the United States was prepared to deal seriously and substan tively with a distant foreign policy minefield with which Amer icans were overwhelmingly unfamiliar. The risk, in other words, seemed to lie in its very ambition, its commitment to …
The Lessons of Somalia: Not Everything Went Wrong
ing from the failed Somalia enterprise? Is failure the right term to describe the U.S. and U.N. military intervention? If so, what is it that failed? Appraisals of the Somalia operation vary widely. Some disparage it as a media driven spectacle of misguided interna tionalism that ignored the pitfalls of intervention in alien places lacking civil order and legitimate political institutions. Some see Somalia as an almost welcome
South Africa: The Prospects of a Peaceful Change
African Policy in the 1980s
A Global Security Vacuum Half-filled: Regional Organizations, Hybrid Groups and Security Management
At a time when the United Nations and key powerful states are pulling back from robust engagement in conflict management, regional organizations and ad hoc groupings of diverse organizations – collective conflict management initiatives – are stepping into the vacuum. In order to understand these two approaches – and why and when they may be operating together – this article compares them as they affect three significant questions and challenges i…
A Poor Case for Quitting: Mistaking Incompetence for Interventionism
Military Dependence: The Colonial Legacy in Africa
Thepast five years have seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the African military by scholars, journalists, and policy-makers. This trend is the direct result of the orgy ofcoup d'états, beginning in 1965, which have toppled governments of all political hues in every major region except white-dominated Southern Africa. As this article is written, well over one-third of the O.A.U.'s membership is under military rule, and there is litt…
The Quest for an Africa Policy
Missing Opportunities in Africa
Crocker and Lewis believe Africa demands greater understanding and higher standards of United States policy performance than it has previously received. Historically the United States has generalized about the African viewpoint and explained conflict in terms of an east-west polarization. The authors assert that criteria for further African aid should include: 1) the current and past attitude of an African government toward regional and global is…
African Policy in the 1980s
South Africa: Strategy for Change
South Africa into the 1980s
South Africa: The Prospects of a Peaceful Change
Southern Africa: Eight Years Later
time that this phrase was self-evidently consistent with main stream U.S. internationalism and essential to the very meaning of activist diplomacy. I recognized that there was a major risk in suggesting that the United States was prepared to deal seriously and substan tively with a distant foreign policy minefield with which Amer icans were overwhelmingly unfamiliar. The risk, in other words, seemed to lie in its very ambition, its commitment to …
Southern African peace‐making
The Lessons of Somalia: Not Everything Went Wrong
ing from the failed Somalia enterprise? Is failure the right term to describe the U.S. and U.N. military intervention? If so, what is it that failed? Appraisals of the Somalia operation vary widely. Some disparage it as a media driven spectacle of misguided interna tionalism that ignored the pitfalls of intervention in alien places lacking civil order and legitimate political institutions. Some see Somalia as an almost welcome
Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War
Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict
Making Peace Settlements Work
African Conflict Resolution: The U.S. Role in Peacemaking
How to think about ethnic conflict
A Poor Case for Quitting: Mistaking Incompetence for Interventionism
A Crowded Stage: Liabilities and Benefits of Multiparty Mediation
In todays' environment, the international response to conflict often entails multiple mediators as well as other third-party actors such as peacekeeping forces, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and lone operators. Such a profusion of actors has often made peacemaking efforts messy, difficult, and at times chaotic. The vicious nature of internal conflicts, however, and the high costs for the international community of fa…
Engaging Failing States
A dubious template for US foreign policy
The global war on terror is a dubious template for the security challenges faced by the United States because it distorts the focus of policy and exaggerates the effectiveness of military power. A grand strategy cannot rest solely on the idea of ‘taking out’ specific sets of bad guys and fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction. It is essential, as the Iran case demonstrates, to get at intractable political tensions and frozen geopoliti…
Thoughts on the Conflict Management Field after 30 Years
This article surveys the emergence of conflict management from the academic and policy shadows into a far more prominent field of inquiry and practice. As the barriers to entry into third party roles collapsed at the end of the Cold War, the field of conflict management expanded, diversified, and fragmented into a range of practice areas (scholarly, policy-oriented, and operational). Four phases of this evolution are identified. An increasingly c…
Collective conflict management: A New Formula for Global Peace and Security Cooperation
This article surveys current security challenges and identifies obstacles to effective global and regional responses and cooperation in an era when security has become increasingly divisible. The new situation is partly explained by the complexity and variety of security challenges, both traditional and new, and by the linkages between them. It argues that a new pattern of improvised, ad hoc and often case-specific security mechanisms has develop…
A Global Security Vacuum Half-filled: Regional Organizations, Hybrid Groups and Security Management
At a time when the United Nations and key powerful states are pulling back from robust engagement in conflict management, regional organizations and ad hoc groupings of diverse organizations – collective conflict management initiatives – are stepping into the vacuum. In order to understand these two approaches – and why and when they may be operating together – this article compares them as they affect three significant questions and challenges i…
The Shifting Sands of Peacemaking: Challenges of Multiparty Mediation
Multiparty mediation, which occurs when two or more third parties cooperate or compete in helping antagonists negotiate a conflict settlement, carries both risks and rewards as a conflict management strategy. Cooperating multiple third parties can increase the chances of crafting an agreement, band together to create greater pressure on the conflict parties to reach agreement, and supply outside resources to help implement the negotiated agreemen…
The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift
Today's disorder is measured in opportunities lost, problems left to fester and power vacuums left to implode
South Africa Into The 1980s
The question of South Africa's future has become a paramount issue in global politics. This book examines the position of South Africa as it faces the 1980s—its strengths, its weaknesses, and the probable influences of other states on South Africa in the years to come. The authors share a common interest in an analytical approach to a topic often argued with more emotion than rationality. They discuss South Africa's internal situation, with parti…
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