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Making War and Building Peace

United Nations Peace Operations
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

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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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Michael W. Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of Law and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Nicholas Sambanis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

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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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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Figures

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    Tables

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    Boxes

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    Acknowledgments

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    Nicholas Sambanis and Michael Doyle
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    Acronyms

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    1. Introduction: War-Making, Peacebuilding, and the United Nations

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    2. Theoretical Perspectives

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    3. Testing Peacebuilding Strategies

    69
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    4. Making War

    144
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    5. Making Peace: Successes

    197
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    6. Making Peace: Failures

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    7. Transitional Strategies

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    8. Conclusions

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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Keywords for this book
Peacebuilding; Peacekeeping; Cambodia; United Nations peacekeeping; Somalia; East Timor; Rwanda; United Nations Security Council; Peacemaking; Peace enforcement; Demobilization; International community; Treaty; Slavonia; Peace treaty; United Nations; War; Insurgency; Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Serbs; Croatia; Kofi Annan; Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Self-determination; Hostility; International law; Sovereignty; Repatriation (humans); Warfare; Member state; An Agenda for Peace; Implementation; Strategy; Cambridge University Press; UN Mandate; Humanitarian intervention; Governance; Refugee; Development aid; Peace and conflict studies; Westphalian sovereignty; National Reconciliation; On War; Ethnic cleansing; Military operation; Case study; Colonialism; Impunity; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Cold War; Princeton University Press; Internally displaced person; Result; Great power; Coalition government; Disarmament; Civil society; Looting; Yugoslavia; Bosniaks; Dayton Agreement; Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Unified Task Force; Economic growth; Arusha Agreement; Burundi; Combatant; Humanitarian aid; Hellenic studies; Foreign policy
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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