Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents' Choices after Civil War

Name: Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents' Choices after Civil War
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ISBN: 9780691136714

ISBN-10: 0691136718

ISBN-13: 9780691136714

Edition: 2008

Authors: Virginia Page Fortna

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In the last fifteen years, the number, size, and scope of peacekeeping missions deployed in the aftermath of civil wars have increased exponentially. From Croatia and Cambodia, to Nicaragua and Namibia, international personnel have been sent to maintain peace around the world. But does peacekeeping work? And if so, how? InDoes Peacekeeping Work?Virginia Page Fortna answers these questions through the systematic analysis of civil wars that have taken place since the end of the Cold War. She compares peacekeeping and nonpeacekeeping cases, and she investigates where peacekeepers go, showing that their missions are crucial to the most severe internal conflicts in countries and regions where…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.37" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Figures, Maps, and Tables


Acknowledgments



Peacekeeping and the Peacekept: Questions, Definitions, and Research Design



Where Peacekeepers Go I: Hypotheses and Statistical Evidence



Where Peacekeepers Go II: Evidence from the Cases



A Causal Theory of Peacekeeping



Peacekeeping Works: Evidence of Effectiveness



How Peacekeeping Works: Causal Mechanisms from the Perspective of the Peacekept



Conclusion and Implications



The Data



Predicting the Degree of Difficulty of Maintaining Peace


References


Index