Stabilization Operations, Security and Development: States of Fragility

ISBN-13: 9780415536769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 292 str.

Robert Muggah

Opis

This volume provides a balanced overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations, which covers the wider picture, including the expansion of stabilization efforts in Latin America, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.

Spis treści

Introduction, Robert Muggah  1. The Evolution of Stabilization Concepts and Praxis, Steven A. Zyck, Sultan Barakat and Seán Deely  2. Humanitarian and Development Aid in the Context of Stabilization: Blurring the Lines and Broadening the Gap, Gilles Carbonnier  3. Reflections on United Nations-led Stabilization: Late Peacekeeping, Early Peacebuilding or Something Else?, Robert Muggah  4. Promoting Interim Stabilization in Fragile Settings: From Theory to Practice, Nat Colletta  5. Afghanistan’s Stabilization Programme: Hope in a Dystopian Sea?, Stuart Gordon  6. Securing Peace and Promoting Stability in Western Pakistan, Abubaker Siddique  7. Stabilization in Practice - The Somali Case,  Ken Menkhaus  8. Setting the conditions for victory? US Military Hearts and Minds Operations North Eastern Kenya, Mark Bradbury and Michael Kleinman  9. The Sobering Lessons of Stabilization in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Spyros Demetriou and Ian Quick  10. Stabilization Next Door: Mexico’s U.S-backed Security Intervention, Sebastián Albuja  11. Collateral Damage: Urban Centers and IDPs in Post-Demobilization Colombia, Kimberly Howe  12. Paving the hills and leveling the streets: counter-insurgency in Rio de Janeiro, Robert Muggah and Albert Walter Souza Mulli  13. Stabilising a victor’s peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka, Jonathan Goodhand  Conclusion, Robert Muggah

O autorze

Robert Muggah is the Research Director of the Igarapé Institute, a Principal of the SecDev Group, and a Professor at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also advises the United Nations and a number of bilateral and multilateral agencies on issues of security and development.