Timing the de-escalation of international conflicts / edited by Louis Kriesberg, Stuart J. Thorson.

The changing international environment and the resolution of international conflicts / P. Terrence Hopmann
Critical elements in determining the suitability of conflict settlement efforts by the United Nations Secretary General / Indar Jit Rikhye
Ripeness, de-escalation, and arms control / Richard N. Haass
Domestic factors and de-escalation initiatives / Jo L. Husbands. Strategies for de-escalation / Susan French and Louis Kriesberg
Up the down staircase? / Roger Hurwitz
Power strategies in de-escalation / I. William Zartman and Johannes Aurik
Superpower strategies in efforts to terminate the War in Beirut, 1982-84 / Juergen Dedring
Further exploration of track two diplomacy / John W. Mc Donald
Private intervention in public controversy / Ralph Earle II
The timing of ripeness and the ripeness of timing / Jeffrey Z. Rubin
From theory to practice and back / James P. Bennett, Goodwin Cooke, and Stuart J. Thorson.