Author : Cedric de Coning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315396939
This edited volume offers a first thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and attempts to align the two to help inform practice.
Author : Lise Morjé Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 33,89 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 : Joachim Koops
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 20,71 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 : Jacques L. Koko
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761858652
This book examines 46 UN peacekeeping operations, initiated from 1956 through 2006, to identify the most significant factors that could help to explain the success or lack of success of such operations.
Author : Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789280810677
Includes statistics.
Author : D. Jett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 19,49 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 : Olivera Simic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 3642284841
This book critically examines the response of the United Nations (UN) to the problem of sexual exploitation in UN Peace Support Operations. It assesses the Secretary-General’s Bulletin on Special Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (2003) (SGB) and its definition of sexual exploitation, which includes sexual relationships and prostitution. With reference to people affected by the policy (using the example of Bosnian women and UN peacekeepers), and taking account of both radical and ‘sex positive’ feminist perspectives, the book finds that the inclusion of consensual sexual relationships and prostitution in the definition of sexual exploitation is not tenable. The book argues that the SGB is overprotective, relies on negative gender and imperial stereotypes, and is out of step with international human rights norms and gender equality. It concludes that the SGB must be revised in consultation with those affected by it, namely local women and peacekeepers, and must fully respect their human rights and freedoms, particularly the right to privacy and sexuality rights.
Author : Alex J. Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199672822
Providing Peacekeepers analyzes the factors which encourage (or discourage) states from contributing their soldiers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It focuses on the UN's experiences during the twenty-first century and does so through four thematic and sixteen case study chapters.
Author : Emily Paddon Rhoads
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198747241
United Nations peacekeeping constitutes the second largest military deployment around the world, and the organization's flagship enterprise. Once responsible simply for the job of observing frontiers and monitoring ceasefire agreements, UN missions are now frequently charged with the far more daunting task of 'robust' intervention- penalizing spoilers of peace and protecting civilians from peril. Taking Sides in Peacekeeping explores this transformationand its implications through the first comprehensive conceptual and empirical study of impartiality, a norm long considered to be the bedrock of UN peacekeeping. It reveals how a change in the dominantunderstanding of impartiality has politicized peacekeeping and, in some cases, effectively converted UN forces into one warring party among many. The book incorporates a large body of primary evidence and draws on extensive fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, site of the biggest and costliest mission in UN history (1999-2015).
Author : Adekeye Adebajo
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1920196293
"This book is about the games that Great Powers play. Nearly half of all UN peacekeeping missions in the post-Cold War era have been in Africa, and the continent currently hosts the greatest number (and also the largest) of such missions in the world. Uniquely assessing five decades of UN peacekeeping in Africa, Adekeye Adebajo focuses on a series of questions: What accounts for the resurgence of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa after the Cold War? What are the factors that have determined the success, or contributed to the failure, of the missions? Does the mandating of so many peacekeeping missions signify the failure of Africa's regional security organizations? And, crucially, how can a new division of labour be established between the UN and Africa's security organisations to more effectively manage conflicts on the continent? Adebajo's historically informed approach provides an in-depth analysis of the key domestic, regional, and external factors that shaped the outcomes of fifteen UN missions, offering critical lessons for future peacekeeping efforts in Africa and beyond." --
