Contents

Acknowledgments
The Responsibilities of Democracies in Preventing Deadly Conflict

1. Preliminary Observations and Questions
2. Thinking Big About Preventing Deadly Conflict: The Historical Perspective
3. Types of Conflict and Conflict Prevention
4. Competencies, Responsibilities, and Handicaps of the Democracies in Conflict Prevention
5. The Question of Democracies' "Political Will"

Appendixes
A. Major Armed Conflicts of the 1990s
B. Civil and International War: 1816-1995

Notes and References

Members of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Members of the Advisory Council
About the Authors
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