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Legitimacy and the use of armed force : stability missions in the post-Cold War era / Chiyuki Aoi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aoi, Chiyuki, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary security studies.
- Contemporary security studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conflict management--International cooperation.
- Conflict management.
- Armed Forces.
- Security, International.
- Political stability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the intervening force must create a sense of legitimacy of the mission among the various constituencies concerned with and involved in the venture. These parties include the people of the host nation, the host government (whose relations with the local people must be legitimate), political elites and the general public worldwide-including the
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Legitimacy in stability operations; 2 Liberia: Creating peace in Africa; 3 Bosnia-Herzegovina: From peace support to coercive diplomacy; 4 Somalia: From peace enforcement to disengagement; 5 Rwanda: Failure to stop genocide; 6 Iraq: From pre-emption to counterinsurgency; 7 Iraq: Transformation failure and intervention performance; 8 Iraq: Non-support of pre-emptive war; 9 Afghanistan: From self-defense to state-building; 10 Afghanistan: Stabilization and counterinsurgency performance; 11 Afghanistan: From adequate to dwindling support
- 12 Legitimacy and the conditions of successNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-23311-X
- 1-135-23312-8
- 1-282-89872-8
- 9786612898723
- 0-203-86576-6
- 9780203865767
- OCLC:
- 681484240
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