Author : Mischa Berlinski
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374230447
"A UN policeman in Haiti gets caught up in a web of corruption"--
Author : Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789280810677
Includes statistics.
Author : Paul D. Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745686753
Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, history, and politics of peace operations. Drawing on a dataset of nearly two hundred historical and contemporary missions, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary international environment in which peace operations are deployed, the strategic purposes peace operations are intended to achieve, and the major challenges facing today’s peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and five new chapters have been added – on stabilization, organized crime, exit strategies, force generation, and the use of force. Part 1 summarizes the central concepts and issues related to peace operations. Part 2 charts the historical development of peacekeeping, from 1945 through to 2020. Part 3 analyses the strategic purposes that United Nations and other peace operations are intended to achieve – namely, prevention, observation, assistance, enforcement, stabilization, and administration. Part 4 looks forward and examines the central challenges facing today’s peacekeepers: force generation, the regionalization and privatization of peace operations, the use of force, civilian protection, gender issues, policing and organized crime, and exit strategies.
Author : Joachim Koops
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 019150954X
The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. Since the late 1940s, but particularly since the end of the cold war, peacekeeping has been a central part of the core activities of the United Nations and a major process in global security governance and the management of international relations in general. The volume will present a chronological analysis, designed to provide a comprehensive perspective that highlights the evolution of UN peacekeeping and offers a detailed picture of how the decisions of UN bureaucrats and national governments on the set-up and design of particular UN missions were, and remain, influenced by the impact of preceding operations. The volume will bring together leading scholars and senior practitioners in order to provide overviews and analyses of all 65 peacekeeping operations that have been carried out by the United Nations since 1948. As with all Oxford Handbooks, the volume will be agenda-setting in importance, providing the authoritative point of reference for all those working throughout international relations and beyond.
Author : Lise Morjé Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108471129
Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.
Author : Lise Morjé Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0521881382
An in-depth 2007 analysis of the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping missions in civil wars.
Author : D. Jett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312292740
Dennis C. Jett examines why peacekeeping operations fail by comparing the unsuccessful attempt at peacekeeping in Angola with the successful effort in Mozambique, alongside a wide range of other peacekeeping experiences. The book argues that while the causes of past peacekeeping failures can be identified, the chances for success will be difficult to improve because of the way such operations are initiated and conducted, and the way the United Nations operates as an organization. Jett reviews the history of peacekeeping and the evolution in the number, size, scope, and cost of peacekeeping missions. He also explains why peacekeeping has become more necessary, possible, and desired and yet, at the same time, more complex, more difficult, and less frequently used. The book takes a hard look at the UN's actions and provides useful information for understanding current conflicts.
Author : Lisa Hultman
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019884557X
This book offers the most comprehensive study to date of peacekeeping over time and across all regions of the world.
Author : Alex J. Bellamy
Publisher : Polity
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745641865
Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, practice and politics of contemporary peace operations. Drawing on more than twenty-five historical and contemporary case studies, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary environment in which peacekeepers operate, what role peace operations play in wider processes of global politics, the growing impact of non-state actors, and the major challenges facing today's peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and expanded and seven new chapters have been added. Part 1 summarizes the central concepts and issues related to peace operations. It includes a new discussion of the theories of peace operations and analysis of the emerging norm of responsibility to protect. Part 2 charts the historical development of peacekeeping from 1945 and offers a new chapter on peace operations in the twenty-first century. In part 3, separate chapters analyse seven different types of peace operations: preventive deployments; traditional peacekeeping; assisting transition; transitional administrations; wider peacekeeping; peace enforcement; and peace support operations. Part 4 looks forward and examines the central challenges facing today's peacekeepers, namely, the regionalization of peace operations, the privatization of security, civilian protection, policing and gender issues. This second edition of Understanding Peacekeeping will be essential reading for students and scholars of peace and conflict studies, security studies and international relations. Visit http://www.polity.co.uk/up2/ for more information and additional resources.
Author : Jonathan Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108499376
An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
