The Power of Dependence NATO-UN Cooperation in Crisis Management

by Harsch, Michael F.

• ISBN13: 9780198722311
• ISBN10: 0198722311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Since the end of the Cold War, crises from the Balkans to Central Asia and Africa have forced international organizations to adapt, expand, and cooperate to end civil wars, manage humanitarian challenges, and contain terrorist threats. The Power of Dependence explores the dynamics of collaboration between two of these organizations: NATO and the United Nations. Comparing NATO and the UN's engagement in three major post-Cold War conflicts-Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan-the book finds that the level of the organizations' resource dependence chiefly determines the level of interorganizational cooperation.

The Power of Dependence puts forward an innovative resource-dependence approach (RDA) to explain the stark variation in cooperation among international organizations (IOs), combining insights from international relations theory and organizational science into a comprehensive theoretical framework.

Author Biography

Michael F. Harsch, Faculty Fellow, New York University, Abu Dhabi

Michael Harsch is a faculty fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and is spending the 2013/14 academic year at NYU's Center on International Cooperation in New York. His research examines international cooperation in promoting security, effective governance and development in fragile and conflict-affected countries, with a focus on Afghanistan and the Balkans.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I Theory Development
2. Interorganizational Cooperation: A Resource Dependence Approach
Part II Case Study Analysis: NATO-UN Cooperation
3. Bosnia: From Intervention to the Dayton Agreement, 1992-1995
4. Kosovo: From Intervention to Independence, 1998-2008
5. Afghanistan: From Intervention to Transition, 2003-2011
6. Conclusions