Ending wars Feargal Cochrane

The changing nature of war. ; What is war? ; The social meaning of war ; The limits of war ; Modern trends in war ; How do modern wars end? ; Making wars ripe for ending -- Third-party intervention. ; What is third-party intervention? ; Different forms of third-party intervention ; Chechnya and the limits of third-party intervention -- Negotiation or victory? ; Getting to the table: pre-negotiations and the first steps towards dialogue ; Making the first move ; When the talking begins: political negotiations ; The importance of leadership in negotiations -- Resistance to the peace. ; Why resist the ending of war? ; What is a spoiler? ; Violent resisters ; Peaceful resisters -- Ending the global war on terror. ; Understanding the global war on terror ; Can the global war on terror be ended? -- Reconciliation and rebuilding. ; Rebuilding through reconciliation ; Rebuilding through reconstruction ; Rebuilding whose peace? ; The need for effective reconstruction to end wars