Paul F. Diehl is professor of political science and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Joseph Lepgold was, at the time of his death in December 2001, associate professor of government at Georgetown University.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: Regional Approaches to Conflict Management: Incentives and ApproachesChapter 3 Regionalism in the Post-Cold War Era: Incentives for Conflict ManagementChapter 4 Regional Conflict Management: Strategies, Necessary Conditions, and Comparative EffectivenessPart 5 Part II: Case Studies in Regional Conflict ManagementChapter 6 Regional Conflict Management in AfricaChapter 7 The Dilemma of Regional Security in East Asia: Multilateralism versus BilateralismChapter 8 Conflict Management in Latin AmericaChapter 9 Conflict Management in the Middle East: Between the "Old" and the "New"Chapter 10 Managing Conflict in South AsiaChapter 11 Regional Conflict Management in EuropeChapter 12 Conclusion: Patterns and Discontinuities in Regional Conflict Management

Regional Conflict Management is an analytically sound and well-integrated synthesis of the new issues that have emerged in regional security. It provides an excellent combination of both theoretical background and empirical case studies covering Europe and the ex-Soviet republics, East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and Latin America. In each of the geographical case studies, the chapters explore incisively the global ramifications of regional conflicts, and alternative strategies of containment.