Peacekeeping
Author: Mischa Berlinski
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-03-08
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0374230447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A UN policeman in Haiti gets caught up in a web of corruption"--
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Understanding Peacekeeping
Author: Paul D. Williams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-12-18
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 0745686753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeace 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.
Power in Peacekeeping
Author: Lise Morjé Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1108471129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Author: Ramesh Chandra Thakur
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789280810677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes statistics.
African Peacekeeping
Author: Jonathan Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108499376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars
Author: Lise Morjé Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 0521881382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth 2007 analysis of the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping missions in civil wars.
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Author: D. Jett
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0312292740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDennis 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.
Does Peacekeeping Work?
Author: Virginia Page Fortna
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008-07-21
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780691136714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Peacekeeping in the Midst of War
Author: Lisa Hultman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019-12
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 019884557X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence. Yet despite being the most visible tool of international intervention, policymakers and scholars have little systematic knowledge about how well peacekeeping works. Peacekeeping in the Midst of War offers the most comprehensive analyses of peacekeeping on civil war violence to date. With unique data on different types of violence in civil wars around the world, Peacekeeping in the Midst of War offers a rigorous understanding of UN intervention by analysing both wars with and without UN peacekeeping efforts. It also directly measures the strength of UN missions in personnel capacity and constitution. Using large-n quantitative analyses, the book finds that UN peacekeeping missions with appropriately constituted force capacities mitigate violence in civil wars. The authors conclude by analyzing the broader context of UN intervention effectiveness, and conclude that peacekeeping is a more generally effective way to reduce the human suffering associated with civil war.
The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Author: Joachim Koops
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 1031
ISBN-13: 019150954X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
