Lexington Books
Pages: 180
Trim: 7 x 9¼
978-0-7391-1285-4 • Hardback • July 2006 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
978-0-7391-1286-1 • Paperback • August 2006 • $54.99 • (£42.00)
Jaroslav Tir is an assistant professor in the field of Political Science at The University of Georgia.
Chapter 1 Territorial Changes as Consequences and Causes of Territorial Disputes
Chapter 2 Theoretical Linkages Between Territorial Changes and Subsequent Militarized Conflict over Land
Chapter 3 Research Design
Chapter 4 Aftermath of State-to-Stae Territorial Transfers
Chapter 5 Aftermath of Secessions
Chapter 6 Aftermath of Unifications
Chapter 7 Project Summary, Implications, and Extensions
"Tir's book makes an original and lasting contribution to study of international conflict. It provides an insightful empirically grounded study of the role of territorial changes in both conflict and peace. It is a book that every scholar, policy maker, and student interested in global conflict and peace will benefit from reading."
— John A. Vasquez, Mackie Scholar in International Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This book is a great step forward in the study of international conflict processes. A unified model linking territorial changes and future militarized conflict is developed and tested. The findings have implications for many areas of research, most notably, territorial conflict, ethnic conflict and temporal conflict diffusion. The book is a 'must read' for scholars with general interests in the international relations as well as specialists on conflict.
— Patrick James, University of Southern California
"Careless scholarly speculation and partisan rhetoric have long advocated changing territorial boundaries to solve conflicts. In this path- breaking work, Tir provides systematic, empirical evidence about such claims and discovers that reality is nowhere near as simple as those prescriptions suggest."
— Paul F. Diehl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign