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Power in peacekeeping / Lise Morjé Howard

Author
Howard, Lise Morjé
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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.
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 Based on more than two decades of study, interviews with peacekeepers, unpublished records on Namibia, and ethnographic observation of peacekeepers in Lebanon, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic, this book explains how peacekeepers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.
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ISBN
9781108557689 (ebook)
9781108471121 (hardback)
9781108457187 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 May 2019).
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