Cass Series on Peacekeeping
About the Book Series
This series examines all aspects of peacekeeping, from the political, operational and legal dimensions to the developmental and humanitarian issues that must be dealt with by all those involved with peacekeeping in the world today.
Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism: Rise and Fall of a Policy
1st Edition
By Leonie Murray
March 05, 2009
This volume re-examines the evidence surrounding the rise and fall of peacekeeping policy during the first Clinton Administration. Specifically, it asks: what happened to cause the Clinton Executive to abandon its previously favoured policy platform of humanitarian multilateralism? Clinton, ...
Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chandler
December 24, 2007
Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This state of affairs is highlighted by the fact that Bosnia is still under international ...
Kosovo between War and Peace: Nationalism, Peacebuilding and International Trusteeship
1st Edition
Edited
By Tonny Brems Knudsen, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
September 21, 2007
A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11. Bringing together leading international scholars,...
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era
1st Edition
By John Terence O'Neill, Nick Rees
June 13, 2005
This new study questions whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and Post-Cold War periods. Focusing on contrasting case studies of the Congo, Cyprus, Somalia and Angola, as well as more recent operations in Sierra Leone and East Timor, it probes new evidence with ...
International Sanctions: Between Wars and Words
1st Edition
Edited
By Carina Staibano, Peter Wallensteen
June 06, 2005
The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in...
The Military and Negotiation: The Role of the Soldier-Diplomat
1st Edition
By Deborah Goodwin
May 11, 2005
This is an investigation of the role of the modern soldier/diplomat and the nature of military negotiation, in comparison with negotiation in other contexts. It is a detailed analysis of the role of the military in current operations as negotiators and liaison workers in the field. Very few in ...
NATO and Peace Support Operations, 1991-1999: Policies and Doctrines
1st Edition
By Henning A. Frantzen
February 11, 2005
This new book addresses the key question of how NATO and three of its member states are configuring their policies and military doctrines in order to handle the new strategic environment. This environment is increasingly dominated by 'new wars', more precisely civil wars within states, and ...
The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era
1st Edition
Edited
By David S. Sorenson, Pia Christina Wood
February 03, 2005
Most literature on peacekeeping narrowly focuses on particular peacekeeping operations, and the political bargaining between peacekeeping participants. However, there is very little published research on why nations actually commit forces to peacekeeping operations. This new book&...
Confronting Past Human Rights Violations
1st Edition
By Chandra Lekha Sriram
September 29, 2004
This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as ...
Peace Operations After 11 September 2001
1st Edition
By Thierry Tardy
July 21, 2004
This book explores the possible consequences of the events of 11 September 2001, and of the 'fight against terrorism', the way peace operations are perceived and conducted, and the way that states, international organizations such as NATO or the EU and non-state actors, consider these ...
Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
By Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse
September 29, 2000
Conflict resolution theory has become relevant to the various challenges faced by the United Nations peacekeeping forces as efforts are made to learn from the traumatic and devastating impact of the many civil wars that have erupted in the 1990s. This work analyzes the theory....