The UN at War Peace Operations in a New Era
This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations. It provides constructive suggestions as to how the UN and the international system can evolve to remain relevant and tackle the peace and security challenges of th
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Peace Operations in a New Era
The UN at War “The UN at War is an excellent resource for researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, and students who want to learn more about peacekeeping. It provides a very useful analysis on the past, present, and future of peace missions as well as how they have faced and could face the challenges of today’s world.” —Séverine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA “Confronting new threats and challenges in a context of rising expectations, UN peace operations are at a crossroads. In smart and succinct fashion, this important new book identifies the key challenges confronting UN peace operations today, examines with intelligence the opportunities presented by improved technologies and doctrines and by the rise of regional organizations and partnerships for peacekeeping, and shows how UN peace operations shape, and are shaped by, global politics. Combining cutting-edge analysis with deep insights into contemporary peace operations, this book will enlighten both newcomers to the field and old hands.” —Alex J. Bellamy, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia “This is an ambitious, rigorous, comprehensive and deeply thoughtful analysis of the state of the UN peace operations. Karlsrud persuasively demonstrates that the trend in favour of ever more ‘robust’ peacekeeping, a notable feature of UN operations since 2000, carries very real risks. Through a detailed and illuminating analysis of on-going operations—informed in part by the author’s personal experience in the field—the overall conclusion is unmistakable: ‘the urge to resort to use UN peace operations for peace enforcement purposes, whether against armed opposition groups or terrorists’ needs to be resisted and critically reexamined.” —Mats Berdal, Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London “As the world becomes smaller, flatter, and more complex, the challenges to the UN’s role in maintaining international peace and security have multiplied. In this impressive new work, John Karlsrud brings a scholar-practitioner’s perspective to bear on these problems. The deceptively simple heart of his solution lies in the opening word of the UN Charter: ‘We, the peoples.’ Too often, he argues, the UN has seen its mandate as protecting governments, rather than the people they are meant to serve.” —Simon Chesterman, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
“The international community and the next United Nations Secretary-General will have a chance to initiate meaningful, transformative reforms in the way the United Nations addresses twenty-first-century social, political, and security challenges; the road map is provided by John Karlsrud in his new seminal treatise The UN at War, highly recommended to all international peace and security academics and practitioners.” —José Ramos-Horta, Chair of the High-level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, Nobel Peace Prize la
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