Powerful nations have often assumed a leadership role in international relations by becoming involved in ethnic conflict arising within small states. Recently h

Examines how and why great powers act to defuse ethnic conflict within small powers.

Lund, an international relations consultant, defines early warning and preventive diplomacy, looking at which methods work and why, who uses them, and recent pr

For several decades the debate over collective security -- the idea that alliances are problematic and that all nations should pledge to come to the aid of any