Includes bibliographical references and index.

Promises and pitfalls of cooperative conflict management -- The theory of nested security -- Preventive diplomacy in interwar Europe -- Induced devolution in interwar Europe -- Preventive diplomacy in post-Cold War Europe -- Induced devolution in post-Cold War Europe -- Nested security beyond Europe -- Conclusion: Great powers and cooperative conflict management.

"Why does soft power conflict management meet with variable success over the course of a single mediation? In Nested Security, Erin K. Jenne asserts that international conflict management is almost never a straightforward case of success or failure. Instead, external mediators may reduce communal tensions at one point but utterly fail at another point, even if the incentives for conflict remain unchanged. Jenne explains this puzzle using a "nested security" model of conflict management, which holds that protracted ethnic or ideological conflicts are rarely internal affairs, but rather are embedded in wider regional and/or great power disputes. Internal conflict is nested within a regional environment, which in turn is nested in a global environment. Efforts to reduce conflict on the ground are therefore unlikely to succeed without first containing or resolving inter-state or trans-state conflict processes"--Provided by publisher.

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