This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research, fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of stable peace for the Middle East peace process and for the future of Europe.

Foreword by: Alexander L. George
Contributions by: Rikard Bengtsson, Magnus Ericson, James Goodby, Joe D. Hagan, Adrian Hyde-Price, Benjamin Miller, Kjell-Åke Nordquist, John M. Owen, Alfred Tovias, Raimo Våyrynen