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This book offers the most comprehensive study to date of peacekeeping over time and across all regions of the world.
List of contents
- 1: Peacekeeping and the Problem of Civil War
- 2: Measuring Peacekeeping Effectiveness
- 3: Mechanisms of Peacekeeping Effectiveness
- 4: Reducing Battlefield Violence
- 5: Reducing Violence against Civilians
- 6: Successes and Failures in Côte d'Ivoire and The Democratic Republic of Congo
- 7: Saving Humanity from Hell?
About the author
Lisa Hultman is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. She conducts research on issues relating to civil war, violence against civilians, and international interventions. Her current research is funded by a Wallenberg Academy Fellow grant and a consolidator grant from the Swedish Research Council. Her publications appear in International Organization, Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, and American Journal of Political Science amongst others.
Jacob Kathman is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at SUNY Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and previously worked as an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on United Nations peacekeeping, civil war, civilian victimization, and associated phenomena. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science among other outlets. His teaching interests include the topics above and various subjects in international relations and comparative politics.
Megan Shannon is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research studies how international institutions influence human and interstate security. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics. She has received funding for her research from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame and the Folke Bernadotte Academy of Sweden.
Summary
This book offers the most comprehensive study to date of peacekeeping over time and across all regions of the world.
Additional text
Hultman, Kathman, and Shannon provide the most comprehensive analysis, to date, of the extent to which peacekeeping operations mitigate violence. Readers will find both an understanding of how peacekeeping operations can effectively reduce the scourge of war across the globe and an understanding that peacekeepers face real limitations in bringing peace to the toughest conflicts of our time.
