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Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution?
Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion
and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis
examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how
public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the
ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia during the period from
1991-1997. Each case study offers an overview of the national media
coverage and public reaction to the war in the former Yugoslavia
and examines the links between public opinion and political and
military intervention in Bosnia. The result is a comprehensive
evaluation of the complex relationship between public opinion,
media coverage, and foreign policy decision-making.
Does public opinion matter in international conflict resolution?
Does national foreign policy remain independent of public opinion
and the media? International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis
examines, through U.S., Canadian, and European case studies, how
public reaction impacted democratic governments' response to the
ethnic and religious conflict in Bosnia during the period from
1991-1997. Each case study offers an overview of the national media
coverage and public reaction to the war in the former Yugoslavia
and examines the links between public opinion and political and
military intervention in Bosnia. The result is a comprehensive
evaluation of the complex relationship between public opinion,
media coverage, and foreign policy decision-making.
Civil wars pose some of the most difficult problems in the world
today and the United Nations is the organization generally called
upon to bring and sustain peace. Lise Morje Howard studies the
sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping. Her in-depth
2007 analysis of some of the most complex UN peacekeeping missions
debunks the conventional wisdom that they habitually fail, showing
that the UN record actually includes a number of important, though
understudied, success stories. Using systematic comparative
analysis, Howard argues that UN peacekeeping succeeds when field
missions establish significant autonomy from UN headquarters,
allowing civilian and military staff to adjust to the post-civil
war environment. In contrast, failure frequently results from
operational directives originating in UN headquarters, often
devised in relation to higher-level political disputes with little
relevance to the civil war in question. Howard recommends future
reforms be oriented toward devolving decision-making power to the
field missions.
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.
Civil wars pose some of the most difficult problems in the world
today and the United Nations is the organization generally called
upon to bring and sustain peace. Lise Morje Howard studies the
sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping. Her in-depth
2007 analysis of some of the most complex UN peacekeeping missions
debunks the conventional wisdom that they habitually fail, showing
that the UN record actually includes a number of important, though
understudied, success stories. Using systematic comparative
analysis, Howard argues that UN peacekeeping succeeds when field
missions establish significant autonomy from UN headquarters,
allowing civilian and military staff to adjust to the post-civil
war environment. In contrast, failure frequently results from
operational directives originating in UN headquarters, often
devised in relation to higher-level political disputes with little
relevance to the civil war in question. Howard recommends future
reforms be oriented toward devolving decision-making power to the
field missions.
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