Against the Odds: Successful UN Peace Operations - A Theoretical Argument and Two Cases

Dr. Elisabeth Schöndorf

doi:10.5771/9783845229454

Summary

Komplexe VN-Friedensoperationen sollen Krisengebiete stabilisieren und wieder aufbauen. Doch Erfolge sind eher Ausnahme als Regel. Die Studie entwickelt einen alternativen Erklärungsansatz für die Performanz solcher Missionen. Dafür greift die Autorin auf Konzepte aus der Organisationstheorie zurück.

Die Studie geht von der Annahme aus, dass komplexe VN-Missionen von vorneherein schlechte Aussichten haben, ihre Aufgaben zu erfüllen: Sie müssen vor Ort unter widrigsten Umständen agieren und sind weder politisch noch ressourciell angemessen ausgestattet. Unter diesen Bedingungen entwickeln Missionen nahezu zwangsläufig so genannte organisationale Pathologien. Je virulenter solches Fehlverhalten wird, desto wahrscheinlicher wird ein Scheitern der Mission. Erfolg hängt dann entscheidend davon ab, wie gut die Pathologien bewältigt werden. Die Studie trägt solche „Coping“-Strategien zusammen, systematisiert sie und analysiert die zentrale Rolle der Missionsführung. Der empirische Teil der Untersuchung besteht aus Fallstudien zu den Missionen in Ostslawonien/Kroatien und Ost-Timor und gibt detaillierte Einblicke in die Realität der Einsätze.

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2011
Copyright Year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-5636-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-2945-4
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 481
Product Type: Monograph

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 10
Authors:
List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes No access Pages 11 - 12
Authors:
List of Abbreviations No access Pages 13 - 16
Authors:
Abstract No access Pages 17 - 18
Authors:
1. Bound to Fail? Inherent Problems of UN Peace Operations No access Pages 19 - 23
  Authors:
2. Why this Book? No access Pages 23 - 25
  Authors:
3. Structure No access Pages 25 - 26
  Authors:
1. Political and Historical Context No access Pages 27 - 33
  Authors:
2. Stages and Actors No access Pages 33 - 41
  Authors:
1. State of the Art No access Pages 42 - 44
  Authors:
2. 1. Local Hostility No access Pages 44 - 46
    Authors:
  2. Local Capacity No access Pages 46 - 47
    Authors:
  3. Precarious Member State Support No access Pages 47 - 47
    Authors:
  4. Rules for United Nations Peace Operations No access Pages 47 - 49
    Authors:
  5. Capacities for United Nations Peace Operations No access Pages 49 - 50
    Authors:
  6. Time Pressure and Complexity of the Challenges No access Pages 50 - 52
    Authors:
3. 1. Authors:
    1. Cognitive Biases No access
      Authors:
    2. Principal-Agent Dilemmas No access
      Authors:
    3. Tight Coupling of Complex Interactions No access
      Authors:
    4. Path Dependence Deficiencies No access
      Authors:
  2. Authors:
    1. Coping with Cognitive Biases No access
      Authors:
    2. Coping with Principal-Agent Dilemmas No access
      Authors:
    3. Coping with Tight Coupling of Complex Interactions No access
      Authors:
    4. Coping with Path Dependence Deficiencies No access
      Authors:
    5. Conclusion No access
      Authors:
4. Case Selection and Method of Analysis No access Pages 75 - 80
  Authors:
1. 1. Authors:
    1. Genesis of Nations No access
      Authors:
    2. Tito’s Yugoslavia No access
      Authors:
  2. Nationalist Tensions and Conflict Leading to UN Intervention No access Pages 87 - 90
    Authors:
  3. Summary and Assessment No access Pages 90 - 91
    Authors:
2. 1. UN Engagement in the Balkans Prior to 1996 No access Pages 91 - 93
    Authors:
  2. Authors:
    1. Local and International Dynamics No access
      Authors:
    2. The Erdut Agreement No access
      Authors:
  3. Authors:
    1. Background Documents No access
      Authors:
    2. UNTAES’ Mandate No access
      Authors:
  4. Authors:
    1. Mission Design No access
      Authors:
    2. Recruiting No access
      Authors:
    3. Financing No access
      Authors:
  5. Summary and Assessment No access Pages 111 - 113
    Authors:
3. 1. Authors:
    1. Arriving in Eastern Slavonia No access
      Authors:
    2. Setting up the Mission No access
      Authors:
    3. Demilitarization No access
      Authors:
    4. Humanitarian Action No access
      Authors:
    5. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
  2. Authors:
    1. Authors:
      1. UN Civilian Police and the Transitional Police Force No access
        Authors:
      2. Civil Administration No access
        Authors:
    2. Authors:
      1. Restructuring the Joint Implementation Committees No access
        Authors:
      2. “Hard-Nosed Approach” No access
        Authors:
    3. The UNTAES Agreements and STACTA No access
      Authors:
    4. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
  3. Authors:
    1. Relation to Local Population No access
      Authors:
    2. Capacity-building No access
      Authors:
    3. Cooperation with International and Local Organizations No access
      Authors:
    4. Raising and Managing Resources No access
      Authors:
    5. Leadership Style and Relation to New York Headquarters No access
      Authors:
    6. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
  4. Authors:
    1. Extension of the Mandate No access
      Authors:
    2. Elections No access
      Authors:
    3. Devolution and Arrangements Following UNTAES’ Withdrawal No access
      Authors:
    4. After UNTAES No access
      Authors:
    5. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
4. 1. Ill-Structured Conditions: Challenges, Constraints and Dilemmas No access Pages 202 - 205
    Authors:
  2. Authors:
    1. Cognitive Biases No access
      Authors:
    2. Principal-Agent Dilemmas No access
      Authors:
    3. Authors:
      1. Deployment No access
        Authors:
      2. Termination No access
        Authors:
    4. Path Dependence Deficiencies No access
      Authors:
    5. Conclusion and Further Findings No access
      Authors:
1. 1. Topography and History of the Region No access Pages 240 - 243
    Authors:
  2. Indonesian Occupation No access Pages 243 - 246
    Authors:
  3. Excursus: The Socio-Political System of East Timor No access Pages 246 - 251
    Authors:
  4. Summary and Assessment No access Pages 251 - 252
    Authors:
2. 1. UN Engagement for East Timor prior to 1999 No access Pages 252 - 254
    Authors:
  2. Negotiations to Reach the 5th May Agreement No access Pages 254 - 255
    Authors:
  3. Referendum and Renewed Outbursts of Violence No access Pages 255 - 261
    Authors:
  4. Mandating UNTAET No access Pages 261 - 264
    Authors:
  5. Authors:
    1. Pre-Mandate Planning No access
      Authors:
    2. Operational Planning No access
      Authors:
  6. Summary and Assessment No access Pages 284 - 288
    Authors:
3. 1. Authors:
    1. Arriving in East Timor No access
      Authors:
    2. Demilitarization No access
      Authors:
    3. Humanitarian Action No access
      Authors:
    4. Installing the Mission: Drop a Brick No access
      Authors:
    5. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
  2. Authors:
    1. The Technocratic Approach No access
      Authors:
    2. Redesign and Expansion of the State-Building Approach: Timorization No access
      Authors:
    3. Building Public Authorities No access
      Authors:
    4. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
  3. Authors:
    1. Local Dynamics No access
      Authors:
    2. “Dead Wood” in the Districts No access
      Authors:
    3. Relation to Local Population No access
      Authors:
    4. Capacity-building No access
      Authors:
    5. Cooperation with International and Local Organizations No access
      Authors:
    6. Raising and Managing Resources No access
      Authors:
    7. Leadership Style and Relationship with New York Headquarters No access
      Authors:
    8. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
  4. Authors:
    1. Elections and Constitution-Building No access
      Authors:
    2. Extension of the Mandate No access
      Authors:
    3. Devolution and Arrangements Following UNTAET’s Withdrawal No access
      Authors:
    4. After UNTAET No access
      Authors:
    5. Summary and Assessment No access
      Authors:
4. 1. Ill-Structured Conditions: Challenges, Constraints, Dilemmas No access Pages 380 - 385
    Authors:
  2. Authors:
    1. Authors:
      1. Deployment No access
        Authors:
      2. Mandate Implementation and Mission Management No access
        Authors:
      3. Termination No access
        Authors:
    2. Authors:
      1. Deployment No access
        Authors:
      2. Mandate Implementation and Mission Management No access
        Authors:
      3. Termination No access
        Authors:
    3. Authors:
      1. Deployment No access
        Authors:
      2. Mandate Implementation and Mission Management No access
        Authors:
      3. Termination No access
        Authors:
    4. Path Dependence Deficiencies No access
      Authors:
    5. Conclusion and Further Findings No access
      Authors:
1. Contrasting the Transitional Managements of UNTAES and UNTAET No access Pages 424 - 427
  Authors:
2. Ill-Structured Conditions No access Pages 427 - 429
  Authors:
3. Pathologies and Accidents No access Pages 429 - 431
  Authors:
4. Coping, Coping Fit, and Advantages No access Pages 431 - 446
  Authors:
5. Excursus: An Alternative Concept of “Success” No access Pages 446 - 449
  Authors:
6. Conclusion No access Pages 449 - 454
  Authors:
7. Resumé No access Pages 454 - 456
  Authors:
Bibliography No access Pages 457 - 481
Authors: