Incredible Commitments - How Un Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The social context of international peacekeeping and the alternative benefits of bargaining; 2. Methods and case selection; 3. The Arusha negotiations, 1990-1994: Unamir in the shadow of Somalia; 4. Guatemala, 1989-1996: Minigua in light of El Salvador; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal is an assistant professor of international politics at Fordham University.

Summary

Why do warring parties turn to United Nations peacekeeping and peacemaking even when they think it will fail? This book asks why peacekeeping survived its early catastrophes and how this survival should make us reconsider how peacekeeping works. It will also appeal to readers interested in the Rwandan and Guatemalan civil wars and genocides.

Additional text

'Peace negotiations do not happen in a vacuum. Instead, elite combatants constantly adjust their strategies based on what they see the United Nations doing elsewhere. Dayal's analysis of peace processes is as novel and original as it is rigorous and convincing, and it carries crucial policy implications for today's peacekeeping missions.' Séverine Autesserre , author of Peaceland and The Frontlines of Peace

Product details

• Authors: Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal, Anjali Kaushlesh (Fordham University Dayal
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108843225
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84322-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, International institutions, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations