Legitimacy and the Use of Armed Force Stability Missions in the Post-Cold War Era

• Main Author: Aoi, Chiyuki
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2011; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Contemporary Security Studies
• Subjects: Afghanistan; Armed forces; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Case studies; Conflict management; Conflict management > International cooperation; Conflict resolution; Insurgency; International cooperation; International Relations; International Security; Iraq; Legitimacy; Liberia; Peace keeping; Peace-building; Peace-building - International cooperation; Peacekeeping; Peacekeeping forces; Political stability; Rwanda; Security, International; Somalia; War & Conflict Studies; WMD Capability; Charter Chapter VII; UNAMIR Force Commander; United States; UNAMIR II; ECOWAS Peace Plan; ECOWAS Peace; ECOWAS Intervention; Al Qaeda; National Security Strategy; Afghan Government; Humanitarian Aid; International Humanitarian Law; UNSCR; Stability Operation; Weapons Exclusion Zone; ISF; Counterinsurgency Operations; Power Political Bases; NATO Credibility; NATO Nation; ECOWAS Authority; Security Sector Reform; Bosnian Serbs; UNOSOM II
• ISBN: 9780415559546; 0415559545; 0415510031; 9780415510035
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203865767

This book examines the concept of legitimacy as it may be used to explain the success, or failure, of key stability operations since the end of the Cold War. In the success of stability operations, legitimacy is key. In order to achieve success, the intervening force must create a sense of legitimac...

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Legitimacy in stability operations -- 2 Liberia: Creating peace in Africa -- 3 Bosnia-Herzegovina: From peace support to coercive diplomacy -- 4 Somalia: From peace enforcement to disengagement -- 5 Rwanda: Failure to stop genocide -- 6 Iraq: From pre-emption to counterinsurgency -- 7 Iraq: Transformation failure and intervention performance -- 8 Iraq: Non-support of pre-emptive war -- 9 Afghanistan: From self-defense to state-building -- 10 Afghanistan: Stabilization and counterinsurgency performance -- 11 Afghanistan: From adequate to dwindling support -- 12 Legitimacy and the conditions of success -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index