Peacekeeping Under Fire: Culture and Intervention by Robert A. Rubinstein

By Robert A. Rubinstein

The overseas group more and more responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and different intrastate conflicts throughout the tool of UN peacekeeping. the vast majority of those interventions ensue in non-Western components and contain interactions between militaries and nongovernmental corporations from all over the globe. during this wide-ranging booklet, Rubinstein attracts on a long time of his personal examine on peacekeeping, and on different present and historic circumstances, to strengthen a extensive knowing of the jobs that tradition performs in peacekeeping's luck or failure. Peacekeeping less than fireplace exhibits that cultural issues are key components in any respect degrees of peacekeeping operations. tradition affects what occurs among peacekeepers and native populations, how army and nongovernmental agencies have interaction, or even how missions are deliberate and licensed. Peacekeeping below fireplace analyzes how political symbolism and formality are serious to peacekeeping and demonstrates how questions of strength, identification, and political belief emerge from the cultural context of peacekeeping.

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