Using force to protect civilians successes and failures of United Nations peace operations in Africa / Stian Kjeksrud.
| Author/creator | Kjeksrud, Stian |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] |
| Description | xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. Protection by military force in UN peace operations -- The book in a nutshell -- Defining success in UN military protection operations -- Unpacking UN military protection operations -- Understanding the perpetrators to tailor effective operations -- So what? -- Outline of the book -- 2. Understanding the utility of force to protect civilians from violence -- Four causal condition candidates -- Causal mechanisms and hypotheses |
| Contents | Further deliberations on the matching theory -- Summary of causal condition candidates -- 3. Exploring characteristics and outcomes of UN military protection operations -- Characteristics of UN military protection operations -- Summary of descriptive statistics -- Estimating outcomes of UN military protection operations (1999-2017) -- 4. Analyzing empirical patterns of UN military protection operations -- Operationalization of causal condition candidates -- Bivariate cross-tabulations -- Summary of cross-tabulations -- Multivariate linear probability analysis |
| Contents | 5. Discovering causal pathways to successful protection outcomes -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- The outcome -- Causal condition candidates -- Necessary conditions for successful outcomes -- Causal recipes toward successful outcomes -- 6. Protecting Civilians from the M23 -- Matching the M23 -- Pre-empting the M23 -- Troop-to-perpetrator ratios -- Willingness to accept risk -- Additional explanations for the successful outcome -- Conclusion -- 7. Overwhelmed by the White Army -- Failing to match the White Army -- The absence of relevant responses to Murle revenge attacks -- Pre-emption |
| Contents | Troop-to-perpetrator ratios -- Willingness to accept risk -- Additional explanations for the unsuccessful outcome -- Conclusion -- 8. Increasing the utility of force to protect -- Summary of main findings -- Implications for theory, policy, and practice of UN military protection operations -- Appendix -- References -- Index |
| Abstract | Offering the first comprehensive analysis of United Nations military protection operations across time and UN missions, this work draws on a novel dataset that covers 200 operations from ten UN peacekeeping missions in Africa from 1999 to 2017, and evaluates the successes and failures of UN military troops in protecting civilians from violence. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023930765 |
| ISBN | 9780192857101 hardcover |
| ISBN | 019285710X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |