There's no magic formula for ending wars well, writes the Georgetown University professor Eric D Patterson. But in light of the very bad job that Americans, among others, have done in this particular field recently, he's tried to design one. Actually, he argues it's neither magic nor a formula, and underscores that every war and its post-conflict geography is different. If all this sounds a bit too formulaic, Patterson's new book on the topic contains ideas well worth pondering in our age of humanitarian intervention.
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