Description:
In Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regional peacemaking.
Brief description: Norrin M. Ripsman is Professor of Political Science at Concordia University Montreal. He is the author of Peacemaking by Democracies, coauthor of Globalization and the National Security State and Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy, and coeditor of four books, including The Challenge of Grand Strategy and The Political Economy of Regional Peacemaking.
Review Quotes:
In this groundbreaking book, Ripsman argues that successful peacemaking requires both approaches. Initial breakthroughs rely on governments' negotiating formal peace settlements, often over the objections of their publics.
--G. John Ikenberry "Foreign Affairs"