Warning about war : conflict, persuasion and foreign policy / Christoph O. Meyer, King's College London; Chiara de Franco, University of Southern Denmark; Florian Otto, Associate Director, Control Risks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conflict warnings as persuasion attempts -- A theory of conflict warning as persuasion in foreign policy -- Inside-up warnings within states and international organisations -- Outside-in warnings I : persuasion by NGOS -- Outside-in warnings II : persuasion by journalists and media organisations -- (Mis-)identifying warnings and the problem of hindsight bias : the case of the Rwandan genocide -- What makes individual officials persuasive warners? : the case of the 2004 Darfur crisis -- Explaining differences in persuasiveness : the EU members states and the 2008 five-day war in Georgia -- Warning within EU institutions and the Ukrainian-Russian conflict of 2013-2014 -- When are warnings heeded & what can warners do?