ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a fit between the goal-oriented views into the existing scholarship on intervention's success and extends the framework of analysis on third party interventions. It explores case-studies of the conflicts in Chad, Georgia, Somalia and Rwanda. The book offers theoretical basis for the goal-oriented approach to successes of foreign interventions in ethnic conflicts. When talking about the inter-state or intrastate wars, it is an agreed approach in contemporary conflict resolution and intervention literature to divide epistemological enquiry into post-WW II Cold War period and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Intra-state conflicts and the means of their resolution have been with the focus of international relations scholars and practitioners from diverse prospective and entry points their participants; goals of belligerent groups; specific outcomes of the conflicts; regional and international environment in which the conflicts take place.
