Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests

Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests

written by Frederick H. Fleitz, 1962- (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002), 248 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
Peacekeeping is a useful tool to manage international conflict and maintain truces, but it will only work in a narrow range of circumstances. Peacekeepers can order punitive airstrikes, depose elected leaders, destroy infrastructure, and enforce peace accords not drafted by the warring parties. They have overstepped their bounds, and peacekeeping is now often a euphemism for any multilateral military action. A CIA analyst who worked closely with Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administration officials on UN issues, Fleitz examines how peacekeeping works, the rash of peacekeeping failures since 1993, and whether peacekeeping can still play a role in U.S. foreign policy. It is a unique realist assessment destined to become the guide to this very important subject for U.S. policymakers, politicians, and students of international relations. UN peacekeeping disasters in the 1990s occurred because world leaders failed to recognize the rules and precedents that allowed traditional peacekeeping to succeed during the Cold War. Although failed peacekeeping operations damaged the peacekeeping concept, it can still serve as a viable tool to promote international security and promote American interests abroad if used in the right circumstances. Carefully researched and supported by over two dozen maps, charts, and photos, Fleitz boldly challenges dozens of assumptions of the foreign policy establishment about the nature of the Cold War, post-Cold War peacekeeping, and 1990s peacekeeping deployments.
Field of Interest
Global Issues
Author
Frederick H. Fleitz, 1962-
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002 by Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr.
Content Type
Non-fiction
Duration
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Warning: Contains explicit content
No
Format
Text
Page Count
248
Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Praeger Publishers
Place Published / Released
Westport, CT
Subject
Global Issues, Social Sciences, International Humanitarian Law, Customary International Law, General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, International relations, Peacekeeping, Military strategy, History, Law, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Direito Internacional Consuetudin‡rio, Derecho Internacional Consuetudinario, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, United Nations, United States, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Direito Internacional Consuetudin‡rio, Derecho Internacional Consuetudinario, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos

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