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Book Synopsis UN Interventions and Democratization by : Carina Barbosa Gouvêa
Download or read book UN Interventions and Democratization written by Carina Barbosa Gouvêa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes United Nations (UN) interventions in the process of constitution making in states undergoing political change. It combines theoretical considerations of democracy and constitutionalism with empirical experiences and takes a critical perspective on the interventions developed by the United Nations in the processes of re-democratization. Presenting new empirical evidence on the substantive and procedural way in which the UN undertakes constitution building in Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, and East Timor, the book illustrates difficulties of these practices such as the promotion of popular participation, as well as an increasing Westernization, and to meet local needs. In consequence, the authors call for reforms of the actions and structural methods the UN to better align a legitimate constitutional order with the rule of law and democratic values. This book is aimed at scholars and students of politics and law who are interested in the prerequisites and conditions for further democratization in states undergoing political transformation.
Book Synopsis Governing Disorder by : Laura Zanotti
Download or read book Governing Disorder written by Laura Zanotti and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United Nations to reconceptualize the rationale and extent of its peacebuilding efforts, and in the 1990s, democracy and good governance became legitimizing concepts for an expansion of UN activities. The United Nations sought not only to democratize disorderly states but also to take responsibility for protecting people around the world from a range of dangers, including poverty, disease, natural disasters, and gross violations of human rights. National sovereignty came to be considered less an entitlement enforced by international law than a privilege based on states’ satisfactory performance of their perceived obligations. In Governing Disorder, Laura Zanotti combines her firsthand experience of UN peacebuilding operations with the insights of Michel Foucault to examine the genealogy of post–Cold War discourses promoting international security. Zanotti also maps the changes in legitimizing principles for intervention, explores the specific techniques of governance deployed in UN operations, and identifies the forms of resistance these operations encounter from local populations and the (often unintended) political consequences they produce. Case studies of UN interventions in Haiti and Croatia allow her to highlight the dynamics at play in the interactions between local societies and international peacekeepers.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper by : Arturo C. Sotomayor
Download or read book The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper written by Arturo C. Sotomayor and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If democratic principles do not just "rub off" onto United Nations peacekeepers, what positive or negative implications can be observed? Winner of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American Relations Book Award of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American Relations The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper reevaluates how United Nations peacekeeping missions reform (or fail to reform) their participating members. It investigates how such missions affect military organizations and civil-military relations as countries transition to a more democratic system. Two-thirds of the UN’s peacekeepers come from developing nations, many of which are transitioning to democracy as well. The assumption is that these “blue helmet” peacekeepers learn not only to appreciate democratic principles through their mission work but also to develop an international outlook and new ideas about conflict prevention. Arturo C. Sotomayor debunks this myth, arguing that democratic practices don’t just “rub off” on UN peacekeepers. So what, if any, benefit accrues to these troops from emerging democracies? In this richly detailed study of a decade’s worth of research (2001–2010) on Argentine, Brazilian, and Uruguayan peacekeeping participation, Sotomayor draws upon international socialization theory and civil-military relations to understand how peacekeeping efforts impact participating armed forces. He asks three questions: Does peacekeeping reform military organizations? Can peacekeeping socialize soldiers to become more liberalized and civilianized? Does peacekeeping improve defense and foreign policy integration? His evaluation of the three countries’ involvement in the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti reinforces his final analysis—that successful democratic transitions must include a military organization open to change and a civilian leadership that exercises its oversight responsibilities. The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper contributes to international relations theory and to substantive issues in civil-military relations and comparative politics. It provides a novel argument about how peacekeeping works and further insight into how international factors affect domestic politics as well as how international institutions affect democratizing efforts.
Book Synopsis Re-envisioning Peacekeeping by : François Debrix
Download or read book Re-envisioning Peacekeeping written by François Debrix and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and again the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping missions in trouble spots around the globe: Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda. Has peace ensured? Have these missions, in fact, made any difference in the disorder and destruction they are purported to forestall? Or are they, as Francois Debrix contends, an illusion -- more virtual peacekeeping than actual interventions in international affairs? Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping is a critical revisiting of UN interventions. Addressing the question, "How do UN peacekeeping missions shape the contemporary vision of international affairs?" the book applies the notions of simulation and ideology to the practice and theory of international organization. Debrix focuses on the media strategies that give UN missions the appearance of effectiveness and that promote liberal ideologies of governance. Debrix shows how the UN missions in Iraq, Somalia, and Bosnia attempted to simulate a landscape of ordered international politics -- a New World Order -- by disseminating visual renditions of peaceful intervention and humanitarian assistance. As a result of these sometimes elaborate efforts, Debrix finds, the UN peacekeeping missions of the past decade represent a study in visual simulation, which has nothing to do with actual matters of international life in the 1990s.
Book Synopsis Governing Disorder by : Laura Zanotti
Download or read book Governing Disorder written by Laura Zanotti and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines post-Cold War discourses about the use of power to promote international security. Uses case studies of United Nations interventions in Haiti and Croatia to highlight the dynamics at play in encounters between local societies and international peacekeepers"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book UN-Tied Nations written by Kate Seaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent developments in Syria the United Nations is once again making headlines. The failure to reach an agreement on a Security Council resolution demonstrates the continued problems in forging a coherent international response to crisis situations. This lack of coherence continues despite recognition of the need for more cooperation to solve the growing list of global problems. With the relative success of global governance initiatives in relation to the environment, health issues, and economic problems, the focus has increasingly shifted to the problems of international security. This timely and important book represents a response to that shift and the implications this has for the wider international system. Using a number of relevant case studies (including the UN interventions in Bosnia, Somalia, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and East Timor) it examines the securitisation of global governance through the prism of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and demonstrates that the development of both global governance and global security governance have transformed the environment in which international organisations, such as the United Nations, are operating. Moreover this book brings together a number of the key academic debates surrounding both global security governance and peacekeeping. It combines an examination of the power relations of global security governance, with the changing nature of peacekeeping operations. By bringing the two areas together the book for the first time bridges existing literatures and debates, from theoretical discussions of global governance, to practical examinations of peacekeeping operations. UN-Tied Nations provides a concise and analytical introduction to the ongoing debates around the development of global governance, global security governance, and the continuous impact these are having on the ability of the United Nations to act as an international peacekeeper.
Book Synopsis Building Peace and Democracy Or Organizing Exit by : Stuard Shaw
Download or read book Building Peace and Democracy Or Organizing Exit written by Stuard Shaw and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s the United Nations has accepted the liberal democratic peace thesis and adopted the democratic reconstruction model as a modus operandi for its peacebuilding endeavours. Internationally administered elect-ions have played a central, but not unproblematic, role in these missions. Are post-conflict elections really designed to establish democracy or do they simp-ly provide an exit strategy for international actors? This book seeks to an-swer this question by exploring and evaluating how the UN's use of elec-tions has changed since the end of the Cold War. It offers in-depth analysis of UN missions to Cambodia and East Timor, two of the most important ex-am-ples of international attempts at implementing democracy in post-conflict si-tuations. The book is addressed to political science students and re-sear-chers with an interest in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, democratization and the United Nations.
Book Synopsis Exploring Cultural Predictors of Military Intervention Success by : Dr. Earl G. Wade
Download or read book Exploring Cultural Predictors of Military Intervention Success written by Dr. Earl G. Wade and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The following paper describes an ex post facto exploration of predictors of military intervention success. As such, the research examined pre-and post-intervention political conditions as a measure of democratization in countries subject to UN peacekeeping missions. To determine political conditions of democratization in countries subject to UN intervention, the research referred to the Polity IV Project's database of "Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2013." The study measured the difference in each country pre-and post-intervention average polity score and corrected this statistic for UN per capita cost and identified countries that significantly outperformed (and underperformed) the group average. These countries were subjected to further qualitative analysis to identify cultural factors that might predict intervention success. The study concluded that Central American former Spanish colonies with large "mestizo" populations and a longer history of independence tended to outperform other UN interventions. The study also determined that while ethnic fractionalization was a predictor of pre-intervention low polity scores, it was not related to performance (change in average polity score) in the study."--Abstract.
Book Synopsis War and Democratization by : Wolfgang Merkel
Download or read book War and Democratization written by Wolfgang Merkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotion of democracy in post-war and post-conflict societies became a topic during the 1990s. The book deals with the legality, legitimacy and effectiveness of military interventions where the international community of states not only felt impelled to engage in military humanitarian or peace-building missions but also in long-term state- and democracy-building. External actors particularly engaged in four modes, namely enforcing democratization by enduring post-war occupation (mode 1); restoring an elected government by military intervention (mode 2); intervening in on-going massacres and civil war with military forces (‘humanitarian intervention’) and thereby curbing the national sovereignty of those countries (mode 3) and forcing democracy on rogue states by ‘democratic intervention’, in other words democracy through war (mode 4). The contributions link juridical and philosophical reflections on just war ad bellum with empirical evidence post bellum in Afghanistan, Georgia, Serbia, Croatia, Cambodia and East Timor. All empirical analyses stress the complexity and difficulties to establish democracy in post-conflict societies driven or monitored by external actors. Such an endeavour implies a comprehensive agenda of political, social, and economic methods of peace-building. However, if external actors withdraw before the roots of democracy are deep enough and before democratic institutions are strong enough to stand alone, then the entire endeavour may fail. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
Book Synopsis The United Nations and Human Security by : Edward Newman
Download or read book The United Nations and Human Security written by Edward Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations and Human Security highlights and analyzes the changing peace and security challenges faced by the United Nations in an evolving international environment that is no longer solely characterized by states and inter-state security. The authors, who comprise both scholars and UN practitioners, cover a wide range of pressing current issues - including refugees, international tribunals, the promotion of democracy, ethics, regional organizations, humanitarian intervention, conflict prevention and peacekeeping - that form a cutting-edge and controversial security agenda.
Author :Lene Siljeholm Christiansen, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Håvard Hegre Publisher :World Bank Publications ISBN 13 : Total Pages :62 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Democratic jihad? : military intervention and democracy by : Lene Siljeholm Christiansen, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Håvard Hegre
Download or read book Democratic jihad? : military intervention and democracy written by Lene Siljeholm Christiansen, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Håvard Hegre and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Democracies rarely if ever fight one another, but they participate in wars as frequently as autocracies. They tend to win the wars in which they participate. Democracies frequently build large alliances in wartime, but not only with other democracies. From time to time democracies intervene militarily in ongoing conflicts. The democratic peace may contribute to a normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace. This is reinforced by an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention. Democracies may have a motivation to intervene in non-democracies, even in the absence of ongoing conflict, for the purpose of regime change. The recent Iraq War may be interpreted in this perspective. A strong version of this type of foreign policy may be interpreted as a democratic crusade. The paper examines the normative and theoretical foundations of democratic interventionism. An empirical investigation of interventions in the period 1960-96 indicates that democracies intervene quite frequently, but rarely against other democracies. In the short term, democratic intervention appears to be successfully promoting democratization, but the target states tend to end up among the unstable semi-democracies. The most widely publicized recent interventions are targeted on poor or resource-dependent countries in non-democratic neighborhoods. Previous research has found these characteristics to reduce the prospects for stable democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful with regard to securing peace. But short-term military successes may stimulate more interventions until the negative consequences become more visible.
Book Synopsis An Agenda for Democratization by : Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Download or read book An Agenda for Democratization written by Boutros Boutros-Ghali and published by UN. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report will help to deepen understanding of the United Nations efforts in favour of democratization & to intensify the debate on future international action in this area for many years to come.
Book Synopsis The United Nations and Peace Enforcement by : Mohamed Awad Osman
Download or read book The United Nations and Peace Enforcement written by Mohamed Awad Osman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002.This original text studies the UN system for the maintenance of international peace and security in the face of threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression. It assesses the Security Council attempts to employ enforcement measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter in response to inter-state and intra-state conflicts, paying attention to the effect of the Council's increasing involvement in internal situations, both on the development of the system and on the outcome of conflicts. Filling a notable lacuna in contemporary literature, Mohamed Osman studies peace enforcement on its own and within an independent theoretical and empirical framework. The book will appeal both to students of the UN and humanitarian intervention, but also to international lawyers and political philosophers concerned with questions of intervention and sovereignty. In addition, its detailed case studies make the volume an excellent reference tool.
Book Synopsis Democracy by Force by : Karin von Hippel
Download or read book Democracy by Force written by Karin von Hippel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, the international community, and the USA in particular, has intervened in a series of civil conflicts around the world. In a number of cases, where actions such as economic sanctions or diplomatic pressures have failed, military interventions have been undertaken. This 1999 book examines four US-sponsored interventions (Panama, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia), focusing on efforts to reconstruct the state which have followed military action. Such nation-building is vital if conflict is not to recur. In each of the four cases, Karin von Hippel considers the factors which led the USA to intervene, the path of military intervention, and the nation-building efforts which followed. The book seeks to provide a greater understanding of the successes and failures of US policy, to improve strategies for reconstruction, and to provide some insight into the conditions under which intervention and nation-building are likely to succeed.
Book Synopsis Providing Peacekeepers by : Alex J. Bellamy
Download or read book Providing Peacekeepers written by Alex J. Bellamy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing Peacekeepers analyzes the factors which encourage (or discourage) states from contributing their soldiers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It focuses on the UN's experiences during the twenty-first century and does so through four thematic and sixteen case study chapters.
Author :Tommie Sue Montgomery Publisher :University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute ISBN 13 : Total Pages :350 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Peacemaking and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere by : Tommie Sue Montgomery
Download or read book Peacemaking and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere written by Tommie Sue Montgomery and published by University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: international missions and the promotion of peace and democracy / (c)lvaro de Soto -- pt. 1. Political missions. Introduction / Stephen Baranyi. Resettling the Contras: the OAS Verification Commission in Nicaragua / Jennie K. Lincoln and C(c)♭sar Sereseres. Under the best of circumstances: ONUSAL and the challenges of verification and institution building in El Salvador / David Holiday and William Stanley. Beyond the mountains, more mountains: demobilizing the Haitian army / Johanna Mendelson Forman. Between two worlds: the United Nations in Guatemala / Susanne Jonas -- pt. 2. Electoral missions. Introduction / Aida Arag(c)Đo-Lagergren. ONUVEN: electoral observation as conflict resolution / Shelley A. McConnell. The good, the bad, and the ugly: observing elections in El Salvador / Tommie Sue Montgomery with Ruth Reitan. Electoral observation: the 1995 presidential election in Haiti / Colin Granderson. Observing elections in the Dominican Republic / Rosario Espinal. The United Nations in Mexico: the 1994 presidential elections / Ra(c)ðl Ben(c)Ưtez Manaut -- pt. 3. Diplomatic/military missions. Introduction: military aspects of peacemaking and peace building / V(c)Ưctor Suanzes Pardo. Missed opportunities and misplaced nationalism: continuing challenges to multilateral peacekeeping efforts in the Peru-Ecuador border conflict / David Scott Palmer. Peacekeeping in the Upper Cenepa Valley: a regional response to crisis / Glenn R. Weidner -- pt. 4. Challenges for the future. Scenarios for multilateral approaches to political transitions in the Western Hemisphere / Blanca Antonini.onini.
Book Synopsis Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping Operations by : Chiyuki Aoi
Download or read book Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping Operations written by Chiyuki Aoi and published by UNU. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deployment of a large number of soldiers, police officers and civilian personnel inevitably has various effects on the host society and economy, not all of which are in keeping with the peacekeeping mandate and intent or are easily discernible prior to the intervention. This book is one of the first attempts to improve our understanding of unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations, by bringing together field experiences and academic analysis. The aim of the book is not to discredit peace operations but rather to improve the way in which such operations are planned and managed.
