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Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping

Autor Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa, Andrea Ruggeri
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 mai 2020

Considerăm că Composing Peace reprezintă o noutate absolută în literatura dedicată relațiilor internaționale, fiind prima lucrare care explorează sistematic modul în care diversitatea internă a unei misiuni de menținere a păcii influențează succesul acesteia pe teren. Spre deosebire de analizele tradiționale care se concentrează pe mandatul politic sau pe resursele logistice, autorii Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa și Andrea Ruggeri introducă o perspectivă structurală nouă: compoziția misiunii. Analiza este segmentată riguros pe patru paliere de interacțiune, de la diversitatea din rândul forțelor armate până la relația complexă dintre pacificatori și populațiile locale.

Merită menționat faptul că volumul reușește să îmbine rigoarea datelor statistice cu profunzimea studiilor de caz calitative. Această abordare metodologică mixtă oferă o imagine nuanțată asupra modului în care eterogenitatea culturală și profesională poate deveni fie un atu, fie un obstacol în teatrele de operațiuni. Cititorii familiarizați cu Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations de Joseph Soeters vor aprecia modul în care Composing Peace extinde discuția despre managementul diversității, trecând de la simpla cooperare militară la impactul direct asupra stabilității post-conflict. De asemenea, în comparație cu Peacekeeping in the Midst of War de Lisa Hultman, care analizează eficacitatea intervențiilor în funcție de tipul de violență, lucrarea de față propune o variabilă explicativă internă — profilul uman al misiunii — care lipsea din modelele anterioare. Structura celor 280 de pagini este densă, dar clară, fiind esențială pentru înțelegerea dinamicii contemporane a ONU.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198790655
ISBN-10: 0198790651
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 161 x 242 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele interne ale misiunilor ONU. Este un instrument esențial pentru a înțelege cum diversitatea liderilor și a trupelor influențează direct pacea. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă analitică modernă asupra modului în care compoziția demografică și profesională a unei forțe multinaționale determină succesul sau eșecul unei intervenții internaționale.


Despre autor

Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa și Andrea Ruggeri sunt academicieni recunoscuți în domeniul științelor politice și al relațiilor internaționale. Vincenzo Bove este profesor de științe politice, specializat în economia apărării și conflicte civile. Chiara Ruffa este expertă în sociologie militară și relații între civili și militari, aducând o perspectivă sociologică asupra modului în care normele culturale circulă în cadrul armatelor. Andrea Ruggeri completează echipa cu expertiză în analiza cantitativă a conflictelor și a operațiunilor de pace. Împreună, cei trei autori combină cercetarea academică de vârf cu o înțelegere profundă a realităților operaționale ale Organizației Națiunilor Unite.


Descriere

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace. This book focuses on four types of mission composition--diversity among peacekeepers, within the mission leadership, between mission leaders and peacekeepers, and between peacekeepers and locals. It is the first book to explore mission composition and its consequences, unpacking a concept hitherto unexplored and empirically combining quantitative and qualitative methods. It makes an important contribution to the fields of peace research, security studies, and international relations at large.

Recenzii

Identifies four key dimensions of mission composition and how diversity in mission composition became crucial in recent trends of peacekeeping operations.
In general, UN peacekeeping helps reduce violence and limit the likelihood of new wars. But some missions do this better than others. It is essential to understanding why. In this important new book, Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa, and Andrea Ruggeri show that how a peacekeeping mission is composed matters greatly to how it performs. Combining an eye for fine-grained detail with a rigorous empirical account that draws on experience in the Central African Republic, Lebanon, and Mali, Composing Peace demonstrates that achieving diversity across a mission's senior leadership whilst minimizing the social distance between peacekeepers and the peacekept helps missions reduce violence. Its highly original insights break new ground in the field and identify ways of improving the effectiveness of future peacekeeping.
United Nations peacekeeping missions are composed of troops and civilians from more than 120 different countries. It is important to understand how peacekeepers work together, because blue helmets are the most numerous type of troop in hot spots around the world today. Thousands of lives are at stake. What effects does troop diversity have on the ability to protect civilians? Does diversity make peacekeeping missions more effective? Bove, Ruffa, and Ruggeri find that, in general, diversity is an asset: different troop contributors complement each other with different strengths, enabling better peacekeeping. They also find, however, that sometimes less distance between Force Commanders and troops, and between troops and local citizens, can bring better outcomes. Composing Peace is a must-read for anyone interested in UN peacekeeping.
Composing Peace makes a major contribution by considering when diversity of peacekeepers can foster or impede UN peacekeeping efforts. The authors clearly and sharply analyze the role diversity of armed forces in UN efforts, providing important insights into contemporary peacekeeping. By developing a nuanced conception of diversity, the authors demonstrate that certain aspects improve UN missions while other elements of diversity reduce the effectiveness of the mission. Anyone studying peacekeeping or multilateral military efforts needs to read this book.

Notă biografică

Vincenzo Bove is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to joining Warwick, he was British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He holds a PhD in Economics (Birkbeck, University of London, 2011), an MSc in Economics (Birkbeck, University of London, 2007) and a BA in Politics (Firenze, 2003). He has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Essex, the University of Genoa, the University of Naples "Federico II", the University of Venice, IMT Lucca, and Sciences Po, Paris. In his pre-academic life, he served as an officer in the Italian Navy. His research focuses on the arms trade, civil-military relations, international migration, military spending, terrorism, and third-party intervention in civil wars. He has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals in Economics and Political Science.Chiara Ruffa is Academy Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and associate professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defense University. Her research interests lie at the cross-road between political science, sociology, and peace and conflict research with a specific focus on ideational variables, such as cultures, norms and frames, civil-military relations, soldiers in peacekeeping missions. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Acta Sociologica, International Peacekeeping, Armed Forces and Society, Security and Defence Analysis, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Comparative European Politics, and several edited volumes. Her book, Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, has been published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. She is an editorial board member of Armed Forces and Society.Andrea Ruggeri is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford. He joined Brasenose College and the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2014. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam from 2010. He holds a PhD in Government (Essex, 2011), an MA International Relations (Essex, 2006) and a BA in Diplomatic and International Sciences (Genova, 2005). His research has been published in several journals including British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, International Interactions amongst others. He is in the editorial board of Journal of Peace Research, Il Politico, International Peacekeeping, Quaderni di Scienza Politica and the Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica.