Enforcing the peace : learning from the imperial past / Kimberly Zisk Marten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marten, Kimberly Zisk, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peacekeeping forces.

Peace-building.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Focusing on operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor in the mid- to late 1990s, while touching on the military occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, this daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations bear some surprising resemblances to the imperialism practiced by liberal states a century ago. Kimberly Zisk Marten draws lessons from that comparison, arguing that attempts by outsiders to control political developments in foreign societies are pipe dreams, and that a more sensible goal of foreign intervention is to provide basic security in unstable regions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-192) and index.

ISBN:

0231129130

0231129122

OCLC:

55067290