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Title

Peace operations : trends, progress, and prospects / Donald C.F. Daniel, Patricia Taft, & Sharon Wiharta, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Daniel, Donald C. (Donald Charles), 1944-
• Taft, Patricia.
• Wiharta, Sharon.
• Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies.
• Fund for Peace.
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Description

xiii, 271 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Trends in the number and scope of peace operations since 2000 evidence heightened international appreciation for their value in crisis-response and regional stabilization. Peace Operations: Trends, Progress, and Prospects addresses national and institutional capacities to undertake such operations, by going beyond what is available in previously published literature. Part one focuses on developments across regions and countries. It builds on data-gathering projects undertaken at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS), the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) that offer new information about national contributions to operations and about the organizations through which they make those contributions. The information provides the bases for arriving at unique insights about the characteristics of contributors and about the division of labor between the United Nations and other international entities. Part two looks to trends and prospects within regions and nations. Unlike other studies that focus only on regions with well-established track records -- specifically Europe and Africa -- this book also looks to the other major areas of the world and poses two questions concerning them: If little or nothing has been done institutionally in a region, why not? What should be expected? This groundbreaking volume will help policymakers and academics understand better the regional and national factors shaping the prospects for peace operations into the next decade. -- Publisher's Description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Security, International
• Peacekeeping forces
• Conflict management > International cooperation
• Peace-building > International cooperation

Note

• "A joint project of the Center for Peace and Security Studies of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; the Fund for Peace; and, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Trends from 1948 to 2005: how to view the relation between the United Nations and non-UN entities / Birger Heldt -- Distinguishing among military contributors / Donald C. F. Daniel, Katrin Heuel, Benjamin Margo -- Why so few troops from among so many? / Donald C.F. Daniel -- Preparing for the worst: military requirements for hazardous missions / Gary Anderson -- Preparing nations for peace: specialized requirements for complex missions / Patricia Taft -- Africa: building institutions on the run / Mark Malan -- Europe: looking near and far / Bastian Giegerich -- Peace support in the new independent states: different from the rest? / Alexander I. Nikitin, Mark A. Loucas -- Latin America: Haiti and beyond / John T. Fishel -- Rethinking peace operations in East Asia: problems and prospects / Mely Caballero-Anthony -- South Asia: contributors of global significance / Dipankar Banerjee -- The greater middle east: problems of priorities and agendas / Paul R. Pillar.

ISBN

• 9781589012097 (alk. paper)
• 1589012097 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007048035

OCLC

• 182621480
• SCSB-12026345

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library