Completed: DNF
Recommendation: Not recommended
Recommended By: Nobody, but I think I saw a summary in a Chicago Press email
Review:
I got through 60 pages. This is hard, academic reading. I thought that maybe it would be uplifting and it would be optimistic about how wars could end. Instead, it is a book about leverage and negotiation. This book works on the tipping points where a peace deal is possible while identifying that the tipping points must be sufficiently small that both combatants agree it is basically a stalemate and the "loser" is at least relatively confident that the "victor" will not just turn around and attack again. While this is eminently practical and surely how the mechanics of peace actually work, for me, it was just depressing. I could not keep reading (which is a reflection of my thoughts on Ukraine and Palestine and not a reflection of the quality of the book).
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