This book investigates efforts of the international community to
keep peace and rebuild states after these have overcome internal
war. Over the past 20+ years, UN peace missions have gradually
become more ambitious, with an increasing number of military and
civilian peacebuilders on the ground who take on a wide range of
responsibilities. Contradicting calls for ever more international
commitment to post-war countries, the author argues that more of
everything is not in all cases the appropriate approach and does
not necessarily produce better outcomes in terms of security and
statehood in war-torn countries. The uniqueness of this study is
that it puts mission intrusiveness into perspective. It finds that
what matters is the context in which UN peace missions are
deployed, specifically the intensity of the previous war, the local
demand for peacebuilding, and level of socio-economic development.
Deployed in unfavorable contexts, highly intrusive peace missions
can actually do more harm than good, while 'light footprint'
missions can be very successful in favorable contexts. The study
provides empirical evidence for these findings by conducting a
thorough statistical analysis of 22 UN peacebuilding missions. To
validate the results of the statistical analysis, case studies of
Kosovo and Liberia look at the interaction processes between
international and domestic actors to explain peacebuilding success
or failure. This piece of work makes an indispensable theoretical
and empirical contribution to the current debate on the
effectiveness of external interventions after civil war and on
appropriate peacebuilding strategies.
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