Power in Peacekeeping

Informationen zum Autor Lise Morjé Howard is an associate professor of Government at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Her work on peacekeeping, civil war termination, and US foreign policy has appeared in such journals as International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and Foreign Affairs. Her book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (Cambridge, 2007) won the Best Book Award from the Friends of the Academic Council on the UN System. Klappentext Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force. Zusammenfassung UN peacekeepers employ power through verbal persuasion! financial inducement! and coercion short of offensive force. Based on in-depth research in the Central African Republic! Lebanon! and Namibia! Howard demonstrates how peacekeeping works! and cautions against efforts to blend peacekeeping with its less effective cousin! counterinsurgency. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Power and United Nations peacekeeping; 2. Persuasion in Namibia; 3. Inducement in Lebanon; 4. Coercion in the Central African Republic; 5. Toward a more effective use of power in peacekeeping.

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• Authors: Lise Howard, Lise (Georgetown University Howard, Lise Morje Howard, Lise Morjé Howard, Lise Morje (Georgetown University Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108457187
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45718-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; United Nations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Peace studies and conflict resolution, International institutions, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Peacekeeping operations, United Nations & Un Agencies