Theories of collective action argue that a large group of states should be incapable of acting together to bring about the provision of a common good. Yet despite their inherent weakness, African regional organizations have implemented several peacekeeping missions since the end…
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During the 2000s, the Indian military notably deployed overseas including distant locations such as Nevada in the United States, the United Kingdom, Congo, off the Somali coast, the Far East, and the South Pacific to participate in joint exercises, carry out peacekeeping operati…
International peace and stability interventions have evolved into complex multi-sector multi-level, enterprises usually achieving a negative peace status. However, in some "post-conflict" environments, conflict party sentiments that precipitated the intervention remain largely u…
The project examines Nigerian foreign policy in West Africa and its relationship to the participation of Lagos in multinational peacekeeping operations in the same geographic area. Nigerian foreign policy goals tend to remain unchanging while the methods, in particular multinati…
For reasons of Cold War politics, and subsequently for what would become known as “soft power,” Canada has always been an enthusiastic player in the peacekeeping arena. Within these predominantly United Nations missions, supporting peacekeepers through intelligence operations ha…
Military intervention has been undertaken numerous times since the end of World War II. Such involvement has most commonly taken the form of arms provisions to groups, but has, as in the case of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Somalia, taken the form of large-scale, combat-force deplo…
This thesis examines the evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping operations during the last decade of the twentieth century. To accomplish this, the author introduces peacekeeping from both theoretical and historic points of view to set the scene for the detailed examination of…
This dissertation compares Cold War peacekeeping missions with missions in the Post Cold War era, identifying reasons for the success of the former and the failure of the latter. The author dissects the basic components of Classical Peacekeeping (Cold War era) and states that th…
Since the end of the Cold War, the United Nations has expanded its peacekeeping operations in response to the large number of civil conflicts around the world. Many of these recent missions are “multidimensional,” in that they include sizable military, police, refugee, humanitar…
On the eve of the 21st century, the international community is on the verge of a crisis in maintaining international peace and security. The old rules, norms, and procedures of the bipolar Cold War environment which regulated international hostilities have collapsed with the dis…
In this dissertation I propose a reconceptualization of the political decisionmaker and the policymaking process. I argue that traditional political science approaches do not accurately capture the way in which political decisions are actually or the essence of what decisions ar…
The United States played a decisive role in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, notably in its attempt to disengage the deadlocked parties in Beirut. support the Lebanese government in restoring order, and arrange for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Leba…
In the 1990s, there was an explosion of United Nations peacekeeping in internal conflicts. Peacekeeping was thought to facilitate conflict resolution (peacemaking) by ending armed conflict. However, some scholars and practitioners have hypothesized that good peacekeeping hinders…
This dissertation addresses the question: why has United Nations peacekeeping been more successful in management of some internal conflicts than others? Success is defined with regard to limiting violence, reducing human suffering, preventing conflict from spreading and fulfilli…
Peacekeeping is a means by which international or regional organizations control conflict situations that are likely to endanger international peace and security. Most scholars have viewed the contributions of peacekeeping forces only in terms of failures, and they have not inve…
This paper examines which group is more effective at performing peacekeeping missions in post-Cold War Africa - the United Nations or separate great powers not operating under UN control. It considers four cases: Somalia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sier…
Interview transcripts of 11 Finnish CIVPOL officers were analyzed for themes. These interviews had been conducted in the war zones of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during 1994 and 1995. The review of psychological literature found an absence of understanding about two important…
This dissertation investigates the research question: Can an international institution alter state behavior and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a conflict? It focuses on the series of interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve the Arab-Israeli …
This dissertation examines the role of the United Nations in the resolution of civil wars. I examine the UN's intervention decisions, the ultimate success of the peacekeeping missions, and the connections between these decisions and the success of these missions. In UN Peacekeep…