Regional Cooperation & Conflict Management Lessons from the Pacific Rim

Regional cooperation is increasingly important as a means to create peaceful relations and improve economic development. The problem today is not to initiate cooperation but rather how to handle disputes and maintain good relations. This is done through conflict management mechanisms (CMMs) in most regional cooperation structures. However, the interaction between such structures and regional conflict management mechanisms is not sufficiently examined and, as a result, no coherent theoretical model that could explain this interaction has been constructed. This has meant that in many cases the interaction is incorrectly assumed, with negative social and economic outcomes.Swanstrom, Niklas is the author of 'Regional Cooperation & Conflict Management Lessons from the Pacific Rim' with ISBN 9789150616323 and ISBN 9150616323.