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.
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Examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, this book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. It argues that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources.
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List of Figures ix List of Tables xi List of Boxes xiii Acknowledgments xv Acronyms xvii Chapter One: Introduction: War-Making, Peacebuilding, and the United Nations 1 The New Interventionism 6 Generations of UN Peace Operations 10 The Challenge of Peacebuilding 18 Plan of the Book 23 Chapter Two: Theoretical Perspectives 27 Internal (Civil) War and Peacebuilding 28 Theories of Civil War 31 Implications of Civil War Theory for UN Intervention 49 A Peacebuilding Triangle 63 Chapter Three: Testing Peacebuilding Strategies 69 Triangulating Peace 69 The Peacebuilding Dataset 72 Analysis of Peacebuilding Success in the Short Run 86 Policy Hypotheses and Hypothesis Testing 93 Policy Analysis 125 Conclusion 131 Appendix A: Definitions and Coding Rules 132 Appendix B: Summary Statistics for Key Variables 138 Chapter Four: Making War 144 Somalia 145 The Former Yugoslavia 161 Congo 172 Clausewitz and Peacekeeping 184 Chapter Five: Making Peace: Successes 197 Monitoring and Facilitation in El Salvador 200 Administratively Controlling (but Barely) Peace in Cambodia 209 Executive Implementation of Peace in Eastern Slavonia 223 Dayton's Dueling Missions and Brcko--Dayton's Supervisory Footnote 230 East Timor 243 Chapter Six: Making Peace: Failures 257 Cyprus 257 Rwanda 281 Chapter Seven: Transitional Strategies 303 The Four Strategies 304 Transitional Authority 319 Chapter Eight: Conclusions 334 The Peacebuilding Record 334 A Seven-Step Plan 337 The Costs of Staying--and Not Staying--the Course 342 Alternatives? 346 Bibliography 353 Index 381
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"This book will have wide appeal not only among scholars who study the issues of civil war, its termination, and the role of the UN and the international community, but also among any students and policymakers who are interested in one of the most fundamental and pressing questions of our time: how to build peace in states that are trying to recover from devastating civil wars."--Lise Howard, Review of International Organizations
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"A balanced assessment of the record of United Nations peace operations. It provides encouraging insights into the future role of the United Nations in helping countries make the transition from war to peace."—Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations"This magisterial work is the single best study of United Nations peacekeeping available. It combines sophisticated quantitative analysis and intensive case studies in a way that is a model for future studies."—Roy Licklider, Rutgers University"This book will certainly draw attention among scholars, because it advances both the statistical analysis of conflict and the empirical study of UN missions. It will appeal to audiences in both camps. Very engaging in style, covering a wide range of material, and exhibiting conceptual sophistication and originality, it provides a framework for a new generation of scholarly literature on civil wars and peace missions."—Ian Hurd, Northwestern University
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A balanced assessment of the record of United Nations peace operations. It provides encouraging insights into the future role of the United Nations in helping countries make the transition from war to peace. -- Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations This magisterial work is the single best study of United Nations peacekeeping available. It combines sophisticated quantitative analysis and intensive case studies in a way that is a model for future studies. -- Roy Licklider, Rutgers University This book will certainly draw attention among scholars, because it advances both the statistical analysis of conflict and the empirical study of UN missions. It will appeal to audiences in both camps. Very engaging in style, covering a wide range of material, and exhibiting conceptual sophistication and originality, it provides a framework for a new generation of scholarly literature on civil wars and peace missions. -- Ian Hurd, Northwestern University
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780691122755
Publisert
2006-06-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
Vekt
567 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
424