1st Edition

Peacekeeping in the Middle East as an International Regime

By Kenneth Dombroski Copyright 2007
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book investigates whether an international institution can alter state behaviour and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a conflict.

    Kenneth Dombroski focuses on the series of interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948-1994. Analyzing these sequential operations over a forty-six year period provides evidence as to the relative importance of institutions in a state-centric international system. He provides an alternative approach to the study of international peacekeeping that evaluates the long-term effects of peacekeeping on state behaviour, and concomitantly, the effects of varying state behaviour on an international regime. This book offers new perspectives on the relative importance of regimes, the utility of regime analysis in explaining the importance of international institutions, the significance of a peacekeeping regime's role in influencing state behaviour, and the impact of varying state behaviour on regime evolution.

    1. Peacekeeping as an International Regime  2. The Genesis of a Middle East Peacekeeping Regime 3. Establishing the Middle East Peacekeeping Regime  4. The Evolution of the Peacekeeping Regime during the Cold War  5. Peacekeeping in the New World Order, 1988-1994  6. Peacekeeping in the Middle East Reconsidered

     

     

    Biography

    Kenneth Dombroski is a lecturer with the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He served as a United Nations military observer in Lebanon, a strategic intelligence officer during Operation Desert Storm, and a political advisor to the Multinational Force - Iraq in 2005.