Author : Lisa Hultman
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 29,59 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 : Lise Morjé Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 17,63 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 : 50,42 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 : Virginia Page Fortna
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691136714
"Fortna demonstrates that peacekeeping is an extremely effective policy tool, dramatically reducing the risk that war will resume. Moreover, she explains that relatively small and militarily weak consent-based peacekeeping operations are often just as effective as larger, more robust enforcement missions. Fortna examines the causal mechanisms of peacekeeping, paying particular attention to the perspective of the peacekept--the belligerents themselves--on whose decisions the stability of peace depends."--publisher website.
Author : Michael W. Doyle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400837693
Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources. UN missions can be effective by supporting new actors committed to the peace, building governing institutions, and monitoring and policing implementation of peace settlements. But the UN is not good at intervening in ongoing wars. If the conflict is controlled by spoilers or if the parties are not ready to make peace, the UN cannot play an effective enforcement role. It can, however, offer its technical expertise in multidimensional peacekeeping operations that follow enforcement missions undertaken by states or regional organizations such as NATO. Finding that UN missions are most effective in the first few years after the end of war, and that economic development is the best way to decrease the risk of new fighting in the long run, the authors also argue that the UN's role in launching development projects after civil war should be expanded.
Author : Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789280810677
Includes statistics.
Author : Joachim Koops
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 43,69 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 : Dyan Mazurana
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742581322
Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking volume explores how gender has become a central factor in shaping current thinking about the causes and consequences of armed conflict, complex emergencies, and reconstruction. Drawing on expertise ranging from the highest levels of international policymaking down to the daily struggle to implement peacekeeping operations, this work represents the full span of knowledge and experience about international intervention in local crises. Presenting a rich array of examples from Angola, Bosnia Herzegovina, East Timor, El Salvador, the former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, and Serbia, the authors offer important insights for future peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.
Author : Michael E. Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262522526
New approaches to understanding war and peace in the changing international system. What causes war? How can wars be prevented? Scholars and policymakers have sought the answers to these questions for centuries. Although wars continue to occur, recent scholarship has made progress toward developing more sophisticated and perhaps more useful theories on the causes and prevention of war. This volume includes essays by leading scholars on contemporary approaches to understanding war and peace. The essays include expositions, analyses, and critiques of some of the more prominent and enduring explanations of war. Several authors discuss realist theories of war, which focus on the distribution of power and the potential for offensive war. Others examine the prominent hypothesis that the spread of democracy will usher in an era of peace. In light of the apparent increase in nationalism and ethnic conflict, several authors present hypotheses on how nationalism causes war and how such wars can be controlled. Contributors also engage in a vigorous debate on whether international institutions can promote peace. In a section on war and peace in the changing international system, several authors consider whether rising levels of international economic independence and environmental scarcity will influence the likelihood of war.
Author : Robert A. Blair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 110883521X
The UN plays a vital but underappreciated role in restoring the rule of law in countries recovering from civil war.
