Timing the de-escalation of international conflicts / edited by Louis Kriesberg, Stuart J. Thorson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and index.

The changing international environment and the resolution of international conflicts / P. Terrence Hopmann -- Critical elements in determining the suitability of conflict settlement efforts by the United Nations Secretary General / Indar Jit Rikhye -- Ripeness, de-escalation, and arms control / Richard N. Haass -- Domestic factors and de-escalation initiatives / Jo L. Husbands. Strategies for de-escalation / Susan French and Louis Kriesberg -- Up the down staircase? / Roger Hurwitz -- Power strategies in de-escalation / I. William Zartman and Johannes Aurik -- Superpower strategies in efforts to terminate the War in Beirut, 1982-84 / Juergen Dedring -- Further exploration of track two diplomacy / John W. Mc Donald -- Private intervention in public controversy / Ralph Earle II -- The timing of ripeness and the ripeness of timing / Jeffrey Z. Rubin -- From theory to practice and back / James P. Bennett, Goodwin Cooke, and Stuart J. Thorson.