Rezension
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Sharing the Burden of Peace
is an essential contribution to the academic study of peace operations and cooperation among inter-governmental organizations in peacekeeping missions which seemed to have lost importance in recent years despite the growing need for them. It is not only a must read for those studying peace operations but might be of interest to those in organizational management studies, global conflict and cooperation, and social constructivism from theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives. It also serves as a reference book for analyzing peaceful interventions carried out by African international organizations, the United Nations, and European international organizations since it provides rich data driven from interviews with the officials from these organizations. Using a multi-method approach, Balas shows that while multiple simultaneous peace operations are difficult, they are essential to improve the use of financial and human resources.”
—Ayşe Betül Çelik, Professor of Political Science, Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Sabanci University
“At the time when both the European Union and NATO are reviewing their strategic priorities, this book is a timely contribution. By illustrating the challenges of inter-organizational cooperation, the book suggests concrete ways to improve the effectiveness of inter-organizational cooperation when they deploy multiple simultaneous peace operations. More broadly, this book is a must-read for those students, academics and policy-makers interested in understanding and improving inter-organizational cooperation.”
—Giulia Tercovich, PhD, Assistant Director of the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG- VUB) and Assistant Professor in International Affairs at the Brussels School of Governance
“This work shatters the myopic myth that peacekeeping operations should be studied separately and independent of one another. The reality is that operations of the United Nations and regional organizations regularly intersect and cooperate in the same conflicts, and now we have a framework to understand those interconnections.”
—Paul F. Diehl, University of Illinois
