Enforcing the peace : learning from the imperial past /
Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping -- with devastating results locally and around the globe. This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mart12912 |
| Summary: | Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping -- with devastating results locally and around the globe. This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations bear a surprising resemblance to the imperialism practiced by liberal states a century ago. Motivated by a similar combination of self-interested and humanitarian goals, liberal democracies in both eras have wanted to maintain a presence on foreign territory in order to make themselves more. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231509219 9780231509213 1322353328 9781322353326 0231129122 9780231129121 0231129130 |