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Product details
- ISBN 9781594515477
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The international community increasingly responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and other intrastate conflicts through the instrument of UN peacekeeping. Nearly all of these interventions take place in non-Western areas and involve interactions among militaries and nongovernmental organizations from all around the globe. In this wide-ranging book, Rubinstein draws on decades of his own research on peacekeeping, and on other current and historical cases, to develop a broad understanding of the roles that culture plays in peacekeeping's success or failure. Peacekeeping under Fire shows that cultural considerations are key elements at all levels of peacekeeping operations. Culture influences what happens between peacekeepers and local populations, how military and nongovernmental organizations interact, and even how missions are planned and authorized. Peacekeeping under Fire analyzes how political symbolism and ritual are critical to peacekeeping and demonstrates how questions of power, identity, and political perception emerge from the cultural context of peacekeeping.
Robert A. Rubinstein is Professor of anthropology and international Relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is the author of many books including most recently Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax (2001) and (with Mary Lecron Foster) The Social Dynamics of Peace and Conflict: Culture in International Security (1997).
