Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives [Hardcover]

Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives brings together Nordic academics working in the field of peace support operations broadly defined. It contains a collection of articles that present different theoretical approaches to the study of peace support operations and contribute to enhance the knowledge of the Nordic countries participation in such operations. Its case studies describe the development of peacekeeping forces from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland in the face of evolving threats to world security over the past sixty years, and how each country's reaction has differed. The conflicts covered in this study include the Cold War, the Balkan conflict, the first Gulf War and the Malawian ethnic conflict. Thus, it constitutes a contribution to the academic field in both a theoretical and an empirical sense.

This book was previously published as a special issue of International Peacekeeping

Introduction Eli Stamnes.  The Construction of Conflict Prevention Policies: Similarities and Differences among the Nordic Countries Annika Bj?rkdahl.  A Few Kind Women: Gender Essentialism and Peacekeeping Operations Johanna Valenius.  Nordic Peace Support Operations From a Foreign Policy Perspective Timo Kivim?ki.  Track-Record of the Nordic Countries from 1991-1999 Andreas Andersson.  Deployments for Development? Nordic Peacekeeping Efforts in Africa St?le Ulriksen.  A Super Peacekeepers Adaptation to the Post Cold War Approach: Continuities and Changes in the Finnish Debate Unto Vesa.  Military and Political Implications of Participation in Peace Support Operations flÃ;