Title: Contemporary armed conflicts: what solutions?
Author: Fabio Fossati
Year: 2021
Publisher: ISIG, Gorizia
Pages:152
Language: Italian
Content: Armed conflicts represent the object of study par excellence in international relations. Politologists, sociologists, historians, and jurists are, from time immemorial, engaged in research on such an important topic, which also attracts the attention of that (educated) segment of public opinion, which follows international political events. For example, databases documenting the chrono- logical evolution of the major wars of the present and past are available on the Internet. Should we come to the conclusion that there is little to add on such a subject? The perception of the writer is the opposite, and it is this assessment that prompted me to write a political science text on conflict. The final product is based on some sociological and politological analytical tools, the empirical section on individual conflicts (armed or not) that are significant in the post-’89 phase of world politics, and some prescriptions that appear to be the fairest and most feasible resolutions of such conflicts. That section places this text in the vein of peace research, that is, that multi-disciplinary field that, for decades, has been striving to propose to policy practitioners scenarios that facilitate conflict resolution.
