Against the Odds

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.

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Bibliographic data

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: Book Titles

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