Practicing Peace
Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:14th Nov '22
Should be back in stock very soon

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.
Practicing Peace by Aarie Glas identifies an enduring puzzle with respect to conflict dynamics in both South America and Southeast Asia... the structure of the book and the clear development of this argument means this book is useful for a range of readers from the regional novice to practitioners and researchers. * Jones Catherine, International Peacekeeping *
The book is very coherent, well organized, and nicely written. The language is very reader-friendly. I would highly recommend it for researchers, scholars, policy makers, and [graduate] students who are interested in norms and practice research, peace research, peace and conflict management, regional organizations, and in the regions of Southeast Asia and Latin America. The book is also a good resource for qualitative and interpretivist research. * Sarwar Minar, E-International Relations *
Glas has written an impressive contribution to practice theory. Scholars and practitioners working in either [Southeast Asia or South America] will find the book's explanation of the 'long peace' phenomenon convincing. * Émile Lambert-Deslandes, International Affairs *
ISBN: 9780197633229
Dimensions: 160mm x 237mm x 23mm
Weight: 490g
256 pages