War and Intervention: Issues for Contemporary Peace Operations

* Explains developments in recent peacekeeping operations and politico-military environments
* Bridges the gap between peace and conflict scholarship
* Highlights new aspects of war studies

Following over a decade of substantial and extensive American military involvement, peace operations have passed from a position of strategic irrelevance to one of strategic importance. War and Intervention provides a snapshot of the contemporary environment of peace operations, in terms of both war and intervention.

It also answers two broad questions: 1) What are key characteristics of armed competitors in the current environment of peace operations, particularly in terms of their structure and organization, financing, access to military resources, and the tactical tools and methods applied by these movements? And 2) What are key recent developments in the dimensions and methods of intervention, particularly regarding the use of force, the adaptation of global militaries to peace operations and the emerging political, legal and economic components of intervention?

War and Intervention allows readers from a range of domains--military, academic, humanitarian, political, and diplomatic--to understand the priorities and methods of different actors in today’s peace operations.

Michael Bhatia is currently a George C. Marshall Scholar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. This book was completed while he was in residence at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington, D.C., as a Herbert J. Scoville Peace Fellow. Previously, he has worked and researched in Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, East Timor, Kosovo, Western Sahara and Algeria.