The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations

by Eyal Ben-Ari, David Kellen, Kobi Michael

With the end of the Cold War, the euphoria of the Gulf War of the 1990s and the avowal of a New World Order, peace-operations were declared as the recipe for a better world through international intervention in conflict arenas. However, the debacles and failures in Cambodia, Somalia, or the Balkans led to disillusionment and a sense of strategic helplessness among leaders, experts and scholars in the industrial democracies. While these arguments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313365016
• ISBN13: 9780313365010
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"