The

Journal of Conflict Studies

Vol. XXVIII 2008

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 5

Failed States: Why They Matter and What We Should Do

About Them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 8

DEREK FRASER

The Two-Level Game of Failing States:

Internal and External Sources of State Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17

DAVID A. REILLY

Success in Failed States: Canadian Military Strategy in Somalia and the Implications for Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33

GRANT DAWSON

For Better or Worse?: Learning and American (-led) Nation-Building in the Balkans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49

PATRICE C. McMAHON

Balkan Lessons, Learned and Unlearned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 68

ANDREA KATHRYN TALENTINO

The Anatomy and Future of Pakistan’s Afghan Interests. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 83

JULIAN SCHOFIELD

Defining Terrorism: A Comparison of Several

Judicial-Executive Dialogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 94

NOEMI GAL-OR

War Complexity and Outcomes, 1946-2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 110

HEMDA BEN-YEHUDA

BOOK REVIEWS

Force and Legitimacy in World Politics ed. by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, and Bice Maiguascha . . . . . . . . p. 141

RACHEL BZOSTEK

Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 142

SKYLER J. CRANMER

United States Special Operations Forces by David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 145

STEPHEN M. GRENIER

Neverending Wars: The International Community, Weak States and the Perpetuation of War by Ann Hironaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 148

JAMES J. HENTZ

International Governance of War-Torn Territories:

Rule and Reconstruction by Richard Caplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 150

ROBERT E. KELLY

Economic Interdependence and Conflict in World Politics by Mark Crescenzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 153

VICTOR MARIN

Violence in Developing Countries: War, Memory, and Progress by Christopher Cramer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 154

AUDRA MITCHELL

The Kurdish Political Struggles in Iran, Iraq and Turkey:

A Critical Analysis by A. Manafy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 156

DAVID ROMANO

The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism by Clifford Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 159

BRANDON STEWART

Urban Guerrilla Warfare by Anthony James Joes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 161

BENJAMIN P. NICKELS

Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past ed. by Robert J. Art and Louise Richardson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 163

MICHAEL T. KOCH

Order and Anarchy: Civil Society, Social Disorder and War by Robert Layton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 165

DAVID SOBEK

State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace by Christian Davenport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 166

JOSEPH K. YOUNG

Nations, States, and Violence by David D. Laitin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 168

CAROLINE L. PAYNE

States, Nations, and the Great Powers:

The Sources of Regional War and Peace by Benjamin Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 170

ANESSA L. KIMBALL

The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 172

JAMES G. MELLON

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