Research Catalog

Title

Understanding peacekeeping / Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams with Stuart Griffin.

Author

Bellamy, Alex J., 1975-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Griffin, Stuart, 1970-
• Williams, Paul D., 1975-

Description

xix, 447 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

"Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, practice and politics of contemporary peace operations." "Drawing on more than twenty-five historical and contemporary case studies, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary environment in which peacekeepers operate, what role peace operations play in wider processes of global politics, the growing impact of nonstate actors, and the major challenges facing today's peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and expanded and seven new chapters have been added."--Jacket.

Subject

• Peacekeeping forces
• Vredesoperaties

Note

• Previous ed.: 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Peace operations in global politics -- Who are the peacekeepers? -- The early peacekeepers -- Peace operations during the 1990s -- Peace operations in the twenty-first century -- Preventive deployments -- Traditional peacekeeping -- Wider peacekeeping -- Peace enforcement -- Assisting transitions -- Transitional administrations -- Peace support operations -- Regionalization -- Privatization -- Protection of civilians -- gender -- Policing.

ISBN

• 0745641857 (hbk.)
• 9780745641850 (hbk.)
• 0745641865 (pbk.)
• 9780745641867 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library