Making War & Building Peace

by Doyle, Michael W.; Sambanis, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780691122755
• ISBN10: 069112275X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Making War and Building Peaceexamines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources. UN missions can be effective by supporting new actors committed to the peace, building governing institutions, and monitoring and policing implementation of peace settlements. But the UN is not good at intervening in ongoing wars. If the conflict is controlled by spoilers or if the parties are not ready to make peace, the UN cannot play an effective enforcement role. It can, however, offer its technical expertise in multidimensional peacekeeping operations that follow enforcement missions undertaken by states or regional organizations such as NATO. Finding that UN missions are most effective in the first few years after the end of war, and that economic development is the best way to decrease the risk of new fighting in the long run, the authors also argue that the UN's role in launching development projects after civil war should be expanded.

Author Biography

Michael W. Doyle is Harold Brown Professor of Law and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Nicholas Sambanis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
List of Boxes	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Acronyms	xvii
One Introduction: War-Making, Peacebuilding, and the United Nations	1	(26)
The New Interventionism	6	(4)
Generations of UN Peace Operations	10	(8)
The Challenge of Peacebuilding	18	(5)
Plan of the Book	23	(4)
Two Theoretical Perspectives	27	(42)
Internal (Civil) War and Peacebuilding	28	(3)
Theories of Civil War	31	(18)
Implications of Civil War Theory for UN Intervention	49	(14)
A Peacebuilding Triangle	63	(6)
Three Testing Peacebuilding Strategies	69	(75)
Triangulating Peace	69	(3)
The Peacebuilding Dataset	72	(14)
Analysis of Peacebuilding Success in the Short Run	86	(7)
Policy Hypotheses and Hypothesis Testing	93	(32)
Policy Analysis	125	(6)
Conclusion	131	(1)
Appendix A: Definitions and Coding Rules	132	(6)
Appendix B: Summary Statistics for Key Variables	138	(6)
Four Making War	144	(53)
Somalia	145	(16)
The Former Yugoslavia	161	(11)
Congo	172	(12)
Clausewitz and Peacekeeping	184	(13)
Five Making Peace: Successes	197	(60)
Monitoring and Facilitation in El Salvador	200	(9)
Administratively Controlling (but Barely) Peace in Cambodia	209	(14)
Executive Implementation of Peace in Eastern Slavonia	223	(7)
Dayton's Dueling Missions and Brcko—Dayton's Supervisory Footnote	230	(13)
East Timor	243	(14)
Six Making Peace: Failures	257	(77)
Cyprus	257	(24)
Rwanda	281	(22)
Seven
Transitional Strategies	303	(1)
The Four Strategies	304	(15)
Transitional Authority	319	(15)
Eight Conclusions	334	(19)
The Peacebuilding Record	334	(3)
A Seven-Step Plan	337	(5)
The Costs of Staying-and Not Staying—the Course	342	(4)
Alternatives?	346	(7)
Bibliography	353	(28)
Index	381