Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse.(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-SEP-06

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COWARDLY LIONS: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES TO PREVENT DEADLY CONFLICT AND STATE COLLAPSE

I. William Zartman

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005

281pages, paper, $22.50

The image of the cowardly lion comes from the story of the Wizard of Oz in which, through the characters of the lion, the scarecrow and the tinman, is represented what is already within us but that must be made manifest: courage, intelligence and heart. We need all three so that we can have a wholistic vision and a soul in order to be able to leave the shadowy existence of Oz and return to the world.

The world, as William Zartman points out, is scarred by state collapse and deadly conflict. However "external actors can no longer...

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