Bibliograph

Power in peacekeeping, Lise Morjé Howard

Type

Label

Power in peacekeeping, Lise Morjé Howard

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Power in peacekeeping

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1104328833

Responsibility statement

Lise Morjé Howard

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

United Nations peacekeeping has proven remarkably effective at reducing the death and destruction of civil wars. But how peacekeepers achieve their ends remains under-explored. This book presents a typological theory of how peacekeepers exercise power. If power is the ability of A to get B to behave differently, peacekeepers convince the peacekept to stop fighting in three basic ways: they persuade verbally, induce financially, and coerce through deterrence, surveillance and arrest. Based on more than two decades of study, interviews with peacekeepers, unpublished records on Namibia, and ethnographic observation of peacekeepers in Lebanon, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic, this book explains how peacekeepers achieve their goals, and differentiates peacekeeping from its less effective cousin, counterinsurgency. It recommends a new international division of labor, whereby actual military forces hone their effective use of compulsion, while UN peacekeepers build on their strengths of persuasion, inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Power and United Nations peacekeeping -- Persuasion in Namibia -- Inducement in Lebanon -- Coercion in the Central African Republic -- Toward a more effective use of power in peacekeeping

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