Sarah-Myriam Martin- Brule - Evaluating Peacekeeping Missions: A Typology of Success and Failure in International Interventions

This book offers a new perspective on peace missions in intra-state wars, based on comparative field research.

In theoretical terms, this book proposes a new definition of peace operation success based on two crucial elements: the (re-)establishment of order and the accomplishment of the mandate. The work presents a new typology for assessing peace operations as failures, partial failures, partial successes or successes. This focus on blurry outcomes provides a clearer theoretical framework to under-stand what constitutes successful peace operations. It explains the different outcomes of peace operations (based on the type of success/failure) by out-lining the effect(s) of the combination of the key ingredients-strategy and the type of interveners. Empirically, this book tests the saliency of the theoretical framework by examining the peace operations which took place in Somalia, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This book refutes the classification of these three cases as the worst context for transitional politics and demonstrates that peace operations may succeed, partially or totally, in challenging contexts and that the diverse outcomes are better explained by the type of intervener and the strategy employed than by the type of context. This work shows that, for a peace operation in an intra-state war, the adoption of a deterrence strategy works best for re-establishing order, while the involvement of a great power facilitates the accomplishment of the mandate.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, conflict resolution, civil wars, security studies and IR in general.

Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brl is Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies at Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Canada.

This series examines all aspects of peacekeeping, from the political, operational and legal dimensions to the developmental and humanitarian issues that must be dealt with by all those involved with peacekeeping in the world today.

Beyond the Emergency

Development within UN peace missions

Edited by Jeremy Ginifer

The UN, Peace and Force

Edited by Michael Pugh

Mediating in Cyprus

The Cypriot communities and the United Nations

Oliver P. Richmond

Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies

Edited by Jim Whitman

Peacekeeping and Public Information

Caught in the crossfire

Ingrid A. Lehmann

The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy under Clinton

A fairweather friend?

Michael G. MacKinnon

Peacebuilding and Police Reform

Edited by Tor Tanke Holm and Espen Barth Eide

Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

Edited by Tom Woodhouse and Oliver Ramsbotham

Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century

Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha Sriram

Women and International Peacekeeping

Edited by Louise Olsson and Torunn L. Tryggestad

Recovering from Civil Conflict

Reconciliation, peace and development

Edited by Edward Newman and Albrecht Schnabel

Mitigating Conflict

The role of NGOs

Edited by Henry F. Carey and Oliver P. Richmond

Ireland and International Peacekeeping 19602000

A study of Irish motivation

Katsumi Ishizuka

Edited by Thierry Tardy

Confronting Past Human Rights Violations

Justice vs peace in times of transition

Chandra Lekha Sriram

The National Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era

Edited by David S. Sorensen and Pia Christina Wood

Between utopia and reality

Stephen Kinloch-Pichat

United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era

John Terence ONeill and Nicholas Rees

The Military and Negotiation

The role of the soldierdiplomat

Deborah Goodwin

NATO and Peace Support Operations 19911999

Policies and doctrines

Henning-A. Frantzen

International Sanctions

Between words and wars in the global system

Edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano

Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations

A new model in the making?

Peter Viggo Jakobsen

Kosovo between War and Peace

Nationalism, peacebuilding and international trusteeship

Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen and Carsten Bagge Laustsen

Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism

Rise and fall of a policy

Leonie G. Murray

Political Ethics and the United Nations

Dag Hammarskjld as Secretary-General

Manuel Frhlich

Statebuilding and Justice Reform

Post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan

Matteo Tondini

Rethinking the Liberal Peace

External models and local alternatives

Edited by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

Peace Operations and Organized Crime

Enemies or allies?

Edited by James Cockayne and Adam Lupel

Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Selling the peace?

Edited by Christine Cheng and Dominik Zaum

South America and Peace Operations

Coming of age

Edited by Kai Michael Kenkel

A typology of success and failure in international interventions

Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brl

Peace Operations in the Francophone World

Global governance meets post-colonialism

Edited by Bruno Charbonneau and Tony Chafer

Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa

Exploring regime complexity

Malte Brosig

A typology of success and failure in international interventions

Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brl

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Names: Martin-Brl, Sarah-Myriam, 1979- author.

Title: Evaluating peacekeeping missions : a typology of success and failure in international interventions / Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brl.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |

Series: Cass series on peacekeeping | Includes bibliographical references and index.