This book asks scholars to reexamine international conflict and its management - in order to move the field toward directly theorizing about and examining the interdependence between conflict events and conflict management attempts.

Andrew P. Owsiak is Professor of International Affairs and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.

J. Michael Greig is Professor of Political Science and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA.

Paul F. Diehl is an Independent Scholar of International Relations.

1. Making trains from boxcars: studying conflict and conflict management interdependencies 2. Conflict management trajectories: theory and evidence 3. Examining conflict management technique sequences in international claims 4. Helping without hurting: ameliorating the negative effects of humanitarian assistance on civil wars through mediation 5. The business of peace: understanding corporate contributions to conflict management 6. Extant commitment, risk, and UN peacekeeping authorization 7. United Nations peace initiatives 1946-2015: introducing a new dataset 8. Interactions among conflict management techniques: extending the breadth and depth of the framework