1st Edition

Military Intervention, Stabilisation and Peace The search for stability

By Christian Dennys Copyright 2014
212 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines international military interventions that have supported stability in four communities in Afghanistan and Nepal, in an attempt to analyse their success and improve this in future. This is the first in-depth village-level assessment of how local populations conceive of stability and stabilisation, and provides a theory and model for how stability can be created in... Read more

1. Introduction 2. A history of intervention: Afghanistan and Nepal 3. Indigenous Stabilisation – Kalakan, Afghanistan 4. Exogenous Stabilisation – Nahr-i Sarraj, Afghanistan 5. Insurgent Stabilisation – Rolpa, Nepal 6. Autonomous Stabilisation – Bara, Nepal 7. Power, violence, intervention and stability 8. A theory and model of stabilisation

 

Biography

Christian Dennys is a Conflict and Stabilisation Advisor at the UK's Stabilisation Unit and has a PhD in stability and stabilisation from Cranfield University/UK Defence Academy.

'This is an important and valuable contribution to the growing number of studies taking stock of the decidedly mixed record of Western intervention in Afghanistan post-9/11.' -- Mats Berdal, King’s College London, UK

'A first empirically-grounded attempt to make sense of a poorly understood concept ... a 'must read' for all students and practitioners working in the field of international interventions.' -- Ann M. Fitz-Gerald, Cranfield University, UK