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This book analyses three major themes: decolonization, sovereignty, and peacekeeping. Their interaction during the national liberation struggle during the Cold War, culminating in the 1956 Suez War, addresses the principle of national sovereignty after World War II in the framework of the UN Charter. The new peacekeeping operations were used in many conflicts, during which the Charter's theory and application were tested. The rise of the USA as the key Western power and Israel's special role in the Middle East have created a new confrontational dynamic for the entire region. The interaction between the book's main themes in the field has led to the principles of peacekeeping in international and national conflicts being reviewed in light of the discredited 'Capstone Doctrine'. The author argues that state sovereignty is sacrosanct, but humanitarian interventions are equally imperative in his view. Striking the right balance is crucial for managing conflicts.

This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses, political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional grand/mid-range theorization.

Acknowledgements – Introduction – The World State Idea in IR – Abolishing the Security Dilemma: Why We Need to Integrate the Militaries – Why We Need a Global NATO: A Critique of Bipolarity – The Solutions: Abolition of War and Nuclear Weapons – An Early Warning System and a Global Welfare State – Evolution of War and Governance – Conclusion – Index.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission 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.

"The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent "minoritization" inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation"--

The emerging role of regional organizations in post-Cold War Africa -- From ecology to mediation : IGAD first efforts as a regional mediator -- We cannot negotiate and fight : IGAD's role in achieving the CPA -- Spring of hope : IGAD's mediation efforts, 2005-2014 -- Winter of despair : IGAD mediation efforts, 2015-2018 -- A comparative view of IGAD's mediation in Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Somaliland.

This timely book examines the responsibility of international organizations for complicity in human rights and humanitarian law violations. It comprehensively addresses a lacuna in current scholarship through an analysis of the mandates and modus operandi of UN peace operations, offering workable normative solutions and striking a balance between the UN's duty not to contribute to international law violations and its need to discharge mandated tasks in a highly volatile environment. Building on existing scholarship on State responsibility for aid or assistance, this incisive book is the first to focus on how the complicity of international organizations in human rights and humanitarian law violations can be established. Through a re-examination of classic legal notions such as due diligence and effective control, and their application to the problem of UN responsibility for complicity, Dr Magdalena Pacholska provides a pertinent analysis of the complex issues surrounding the UN's legal exposure for its activities in the field of peace and security. Legal advisers working for the UN and other international organizations, national Ministries of Defence, and courts with jurisdiction in this area, will find this book's insights both valuable and useful in practice. It will also be of interest to scholars and employees of NGOs with a focus on international humanitarian law and the accountability of international organizations.

Currently, some 2,500 civilian experts work across Europe, Africa, and Asia in ten ongoing civilian missions launched under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Mandates cover a broad range of multidimensional tasks, such as rule of law support, law enforcement capacity building, or security sector reform. Numerous (recent) incidents from the field underscore that there are serious institutional as well as procedural weaknesses and irregularities tied to accountability in these EU peacebuilding missions. This title offers a comprehensive legal analysis and empirical study of accountability concerning the Union's peacebuilding endeavours, also referred to as civilian crisis management. Along with examining the governance credentials of EU peacebuilding, the monograph thoroughly scrutinizes de jure and de facto accountability arrangements of political, legal, and administrative nature existing in the domestic sphere, at EU level, and across levels. With a view to providing for a nuanced picture, the assessment further distinguishes between different accountability finalities and evaluates the appropriateness of existing accountability arrangements in civilian crisis management based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative criteria.

"This monograph provides a contemporary analysis of the frictions between peacemaking and international human rights law based on the cases of post-conflict power-sharing in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In this context it evaluates the long-standing debate in the United Nations and human rights bodies about the 'imperfect peace'. Written from a practitioner-scholarly viewpoint and drawing from new authentic sources, the book describes the mechanisms used in peace agreements and post-conflict constitutions for managing ethnic or religious diversity, explains their legal limits under international human rights law, and provides a conceptual framework for analysing the nexus between law and peacemaking. The book argues that the relationship between the content of peace agreements and post-conflict constitutions, their negotiation process and the element of time need to be untangled to better understand legal limits of statebuilding in the aftermath of armed conflict. It reaches out equally to scholars in human rights law and peace and conflict studies, advisers in peace processes, constitution-makers, and peace mediators.Lasting peace requires the respect for universal human rights. This book offers unique insights into how to find the balance between practical political solutions and the respect for international law. It is a rich resource for peacemakers and conflict parties, and an indispensable read on the phenomenon of the "imperfect peace".Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, former Swedish Minister for Foreign AffairsA balanced examination of a key issue for mediators and international lawyers alike, the tension between human rights concerns and practical peacemaking. Waehlisch writes with the authority of one who is both an academic but also a political adviser with plentiful hands on experience in the regions from which he draws his case studies, the Balkans and the Arab world.Sir Derek Plumbly KCMG, King's College London, former UN Special Coordinator for LebanonA rigorous reflection on the tension between peacemaking and the protection of human rights. The focus on two well-chosen case-studies brings the problem to life, and international law is presented in the light of deeply understood practical experience. This illuminating, thought-provoking work deserves to be read by everyone involved in the law, practice or study of peacemaking, statebuilding, or human rights.Professor David Feldman, Cambridge University, former ...

Das Gesicht der Bundeswehr hat sich in den letzten Jahren signifikant verändert. Soldatinnen und Soldaten werden heute selbstverständlich in internationale Einsatzgebiete geschickt. Begleitet werden sie dabei von Pfarrerinnen und Pfarrern der Militärseelsorge, die vor Ort für sie da sind und insbesondere in Krisensituationen als wichtige Ansprechpartner dienen. Die Einsatzrealität der Bundeswehr bringt neue Herausforderungen für die Seelsorge an Soldatinnen und Soldaten mit sich. Sie stellt pointierter als bislang die Frage, wie sich die Militärseelsorge zwischen Autonomie und Abhängigkeit verortet und rückt darüber hinaus die Familien der Soldatinnen und Soldaten und ihre Belastungen in den Fokus. Der Sammelband geht in diesem Sinn der Seelsorge in der »Lebenswelt Bundeswehr« nach und beschreibt mit unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis die Aufgabenfelder, Fragen und Herausforderungen gegenwärtiger Militärseelsorge. Mit Beiträgen von Dirck Ackermann, Reiner Anselm, Klaus Beckmann, Angelika Dörfler-Dierken, Thomas R. Elßner, Matthias Heimer, Isolde Karle, Gerhard Kümmel, Friedrich Lohmann, Niklas Peuckmann, Jobst Reller, Werner Schiewek, Sigurd Rink, Werner Schiewek, Christoph Sommer, Thomas Thiel, Meike Wanner und Peter Wendl. [Pastoral care in the Bundeswehr. Perspectives from Theory and Practice] The image of the Bundeswehr has changed significantly in recent years. Today, soldiers are naturally sent to international operational areas. They are accompanied by pastors from the military chaplaincy who are there for them on the spot and serve as important contacts, especially in crisis situations. The reality of the Bundeswehr's missions presents new challenges for the pastoral care of soldiers. It poses more pointedly than before the question of how military chaplaincy is positioned between autonomy and dependence, and also focuses on the soldiers' families and their burdens. In this sense, the volume examines pastoral care in the " Lifeworld of the Bundeswehr" and describes with different perspectives from theory and practice the tasks, questions and challenges of current military pastoral care.

In this landmark collection, the voices of pathmakers and innovators in peacebuilding evaluation are assembled to provide new direction for the field. Stock is taken of the development and challenges of engaging in the real-time learning that evaluation requires. Best practices for overcoming challenges are discussed and critiqued, as well as some of the basic assumptions guiding the field. New means of gathering information and understanding conflict processes are offered and examined. To continue to evolve and strengthen peacebuilding practices and professionalism, multiple calls are issued for collaborative learning and a field-wide effort at community inquiry.

Introduction / Steve Breyman -- The Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference the early years : an intimate history, 1998-2006 / John Amidon -- History of the Kateri Peace Conference, part 2 : leaving the comfort of home / Maureen Aumand -- The road to CODEPINK / Medea Benjamin -- Liberation theology / Blase Bonpane -- Paradigm for peace / Kristin Y. Christman -- The struggle for peace and justice as a way of life / Lawrence Davidson -- The old tribalism and the vision of Abraham / Stephen Downs -- A quixotic vision of peace / James E. Jennings -- Voices in the wilderness / Kathy Kelly -- The quiet revolution / Jim Merkel -- Becoming a counter-terrorist / Ed Kinane -- Blind to empire / Nick Mottern -- Initiation towards spiritual activism : knowing, calling, and hope / Felicia Parazaider -- No justice, no peace / Bill Quigley -- How I became a peace activist / David Swanson -- Cultivating peace / Ann Wright -- Peacemakers : apostates of the US national religion / Chris J. Antal -- Conclusion / Steve Breyman, John Amidon and Maureen Aumand.