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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 Based on more than two decades of study, interviews with peacekeepers, unpublished records on Namibia, and ethnographic observation of peacekeepers in Lebanon, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic, this book explains how peacekeepers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.
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 Based on more than two decades of study, interviews with peacekeepers, unpublished records on Namibia, and ethnographic observation of peacekeepers in Lebanon, DR Congo, and the Central African Republic, this book explains how peacekeepers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.
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.
Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.
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.
'The concept of power is often seen as antithetical to
peacekeeping, but Howard makes a compelling case that there is much
to learn when we combine the two. This book will make the reader
think about peacekeeping in new ways.' Paul F. Diehl, Director of
the Center for Teaching and Learning and Ashbel Smith Professor of
Political Science, University of Texas, Dallas
'Power in Peacekeeping provides an empirically grounded theory of
how peacekeepers actually exercise power. It offers a new typology
that explains how peacekeeping differs from other forms of
intervention and makes an important contribution to the use of
force debate. The clear causal framework makes it easy for others
to test and further develop the model, and for peacekeepers to use
it to plan, manage and assess operations.' Cedric de Coning,
Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON), Norsk
utenrikspolitisk institutt (NUPI) Center for UN and Global
Governance
'Lise Morjé Howard has written a much-needed and timely
intervention in the study of peacekeeping. We have lots of studies
of why and how peacekeeping fails. We have fewer studies that
provide good news … fewer still that explore how peacekeeping
works, when it works. Howard points to the role of power, but a
power that falls well short of actual force. … A major contribution
to our understanding of peacekeeping.' Michael Barnett, University
Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George
Washington University
'In this important book, Howard articulates a useful typology of
the ways in which peacekeepers can influence the peacekept,
illustrating the mechanisms of persuasion, inducement, and
coercion. As she argues, peacekeeping and counter-insurgency
operate in very different ways, and blurring the lines between them
will only undermine the effectiveness of peacekeeping.' Page
Fortna, Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy,
Columbia University, New York
'If you want to understand how UN peacekeeping operations work on
the ground, why they succeed, and why they fail, this is the book
to read. The research is exhaustive; the insights telling.' Robert
J. Art, Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations,
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
'[Howard] provides in-depth qualitative empirical material on UN
operations deployed in Namibia, Lebanon, and the Central African
Republic. This book is also a strikingly effective (and
all-too-rare) example of using ethnographic methods to establish
cause-effect relationships.' Andrea Ruggeri, Journal of Peace
Research
'This is one of the most important books ever written on UN
peacekeeping. It succeeds in the somewhat rare endeavor of being
both a classic - in its clear and lucid engagement with previous
literature - and highly innovative, thereby breaking new ground.'
Chiara Ruffa, H-Diplo
'In this brilliant book, Lise Morjé Howard performs critical
conceptual housekeeping and crisp theorizing for how we study peace
operations - an area where theories tend to be imported from
conflict research. She picks intellectual fights with different
approaches and challenges their assessments of peacekeeping
according to causal mechanisms based on military security
guarantees and explanations on local ownership. She shows that the
question of whether peacekeeping works has been clearly and
systematically answered and scrutinizes a crucial question: how
does peacekeeping work?' Andrea Ruggeri, Journal of Peace
Research
'… the book's main contribution is the helpful typology of three
types of power and their respective casual mechanisms that explain
how UN peacekeeping works.' Paul D. Williams, International
Peacekeeping
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