Soldiers and civil power : supporting or substituting civil authorities in modern peace operations / Thijs W. Brocades Zaalberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brocades Zaalberg, Thijs, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building.

Civil-military relations.

Peacekeeping forces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (528 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, NE : Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An incisive study of policy issues and practice of the civil-military interface in the twentieth-century military operations from World War II to Kosovo.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I. The Civil-Military Interface in Twentieth-Century Military Operations

1. Substituting the Civil Power: Civil Affairs and Military Government in World War II

2. Supporting the Civil Power: Counterinsurgency and the Return to Conventional Warfare

PART II. Complex Peacekeeping: The United Nations in Cambodia

3. Making Sense of the Mission: UNTAC's Military and Civil Mandates

4. The Slippery Slope toward Public Security: Soldiers and Policemen in Cambodia

5. 'Sanderson's Coup': Militarized Elections amidst Escalating Violence

PART III. American Interventions: Segregating the Civil and Military Spheres

6. 'Peacekeeping' in a Power Vacuum: The Reluctant American Occupation of Somalia

7. Securing and Governing Baidoa: Australia's Living Laboratory in Somalia

8. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Widening the Civil-Military Gap in Bosnia

PART IV. Kosovo. Military Government by Default

9. The Kosovo Force: Entering the Wasteland

10. The Kosovar Constabulary: The Race between Order and Disorder

11. Peacekeepers in Pursuit of Justice: Protecting and Prosecuting Serbs in Orahovac

12. The UÇK's Silent Coup: KFOR in the Civil Administrative Vacuum

13. The Tools at Hand: Civil-Military Cooperation in Kosovo

Conclusion

Primary Sources and Bibliography

Glossary and Military Terminology

Notes

Sources of Illustrations

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9786610958184

9781280958182

1280958189

9789048503902

9048503906

9781423785248

142378524X

OCLC:

437106988