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.

Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov is Giancarlo Elia Valori Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rikard Bengtsson is a research fellow in the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden Magnus Ericson is a research fellow in the Department of Political Science, Lund University Ole Elgstrom is associate professor of political science at Lund University. Alexander L. George is Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations emeritus at Stanford University. James Goodby is senior research fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; senior fellow (nonresident), the Brookings Institution; and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University Joe D. Hagan is professor of political science and director of the international studies program at West Virginia University Adrian Hyde-Price is a senior lecturer in the international politics of East Central Europe at the University of Birmingham. Magnus Jerneck is associate professor of political science at Lund University Arie M. Kacowicz is senior lecturer in international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Benjamin Miller is senior lecturer in international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kjell-Ake Nordquist is associate professor and head of department in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University John M. Owen IV is assistant professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia Alfred Tovias is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Raimo Vayrynen is professor of government and international studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a senior faculty member of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.