International Organizations and Military Affairs: International Organizations and Military Affairs

ISBN-13: 9781138065093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

Hylke Dijkstra

Opis

The member states of international organisations increasingly delegate the planning and conduct of multinational military operations to international secretariats. In carrying out their functions, these officials not only facilitate the work of the member states, but can also pursue their own distinct agendas. This book analyses how states seek to control secretariats when it comes to military missions by international organisations, and introduces an innovative theoretical framework that identifies different types of control mechanisms. It presents six empirical chapters on the UN, NATO and EU secretariats and provides new data from a unique dataset and 45 in-depth interviews.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction and Theory  1. Introduction  2. Agency and Control of International Secretariats  Part II: The Politics of Institutional Development  3. United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations  4. NATO International Staff  5. European External Action Service  Part III: The Politics of Mandate Formulation  6. United Nations Mission in South Sudan  7. NATO Operation Unified Protector in Libya  8. The EU Anti-Piracy Operations off the Coast of Somalia  Part IV: Conclusion  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Hylke Dijkstra is an Assistant Professor with tenure at the Department of Political Science of Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He was previously a Marie Curie fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford, UK, where he was also affiliated to Nuffield College. He has widely published on the EU, NATO, and UN.