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acknowledgments This study would not have been possible without the encouragement and support of a great many people. Special thanks go to our professor, mentor, and friend, Donald Rothchild. In addition to helping us develop and refine our personal interests in the study of conflict and its management, Don was the catalyst to our working relationship. Because we entered and left the graduate program at the University of California, Davis, at different times, it took an introduction by Don to get us started down the road to this book. Thanks are also due to those sources of support that made this project possible: Gettysburg College, Texas A&M University, the Fulbright Foundation , and the Colombian Government Agency of Foreign Studies (icetex). We are grateful to people who read parts of the manuscript and encouraged us along the way—Fritz Gaenslen, Robert Harmel, Robert Jackman, Dave Lewis, Roy Licklider, and John T. Scott. A number of students at Gettysburg College and Texas A&M University ably provided us with research assistance on this project over the years. We thank Liala Buoniconti, Christie Maloyed, Sibel McGee, Chris Tyler, and Andrew Watkins for their help and interest. We also thank the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their perceptive suggestions. We are particularly grateful to Sandy Thatcher at Penn State Press for his support and encouragement. His reputation as an author ’s editor is well warranted. On a personal note, Caroline would like to express her gratitude to her husband and daughter, David and Meghann Lewis. Dave and Meghann have been encouraging and supportive of this project over an extended period of time. Finally, ‘‘cheers’’ to my political science colleagues Rob Bohrer, Fritz Gaenslen, Kathy Iannello, and Bruce Larson at Gettysburg College for their sanity and sessions at the Blue Parrot. ...

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