Promotional Information

Virginia Page Fortna has written a compelling and courageous book--compelling in the reinforcing comparisons that it makes between aggregate data and case-based research, and courageous in its first-person interviews, conducted with those who perpetrated as well as ended civil wars. The book bridges the worlds of the high-flying 'quant' who sees only forests of data, and the ground-based case researcher knee-deep in political leaf litter. Drawing particular strength from the oft-ignored perspective of those on whose behalf peacekeepers do their work, Fortna's convergent analyses advance our understanding not only of how peacekeeping works but why. -- William J. Durch, Henry L. Stimson Center Does Peacekeeping Work? is well crafted, tightly argued, intelligent, and thorough. Fortna makes her case for peacekeeping as a successful tool very well. Germane to the important issues, this book will be widely cited and widely employed. -- Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard University

Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi CHAPTER ONE: Peacekeeping and the Peacekept Questions, Definitions, and Research Design 1 CHAPTER TWO: Where Peacekeepers Go I Hypotheses and Statistical Evidence 18 CHAPTER THREE: Where Peacekeepers Go II Evidence from the Cases 47 CHAPTER FOUR: A Causal Theory of Peacekeeping 76 CHAPTER FIVE: Peacekeeping Works Evidence of Effectiveness 104 CHAPTER SIX: How Peacekeeping Works Causal Mechanisms from the Perspective of the Peacekept 127 CHAPTER SEVEN: Conclusion and Implications 172 APPENDIX A: The Data 181 APPENDIX B: Predicting the Degree of Difficulty of Maintaining Peace 187 REFERENCES 191 INDEX 207

About the Author

Virginia Page Fortna is associate professor of political science at Columbia University. She is the author of "Peace Time: Cease-Fire Agreements and the Durability of Peace" (Princeton).

Reviews

"In this well-researched and solidly argued book, Fortna examines the casual relationship between peacekeeping and durable peace in a number of different settings... Using quantitative analysis and qualitative case analysis of conflicts of Bangladesh, Mozambique, and Sierra Leone, the author provides detailed information on international peacekeeping."--N. Entessar, Choice "This is an excellent book which addresses an interesting, important, and understudied issue... Does Peacekeeping Work? is a very important study and a model of social science research that makes a major contribution and that should be read, and assigned, widely. Peacekeeping is an important topic with academic and policy relevance, and scholars interested in working in this area should start with Fortna's book."--David E. Cunningham, Review of International Organizations "This book is an outstanding illustration of how research should be carried out: careful conception of the research problem, scrupulous data analysis, and subtle examination of case studies to better understand and delineate the causal foundations of the results... Scholars and policymakers should pay close attention to these findings, and to her more detailed discussions of how the various capacities of peacekeeping missions can best be tailored to the conditions of specific conflicts."--Jack A. Goldstone, Perspectives on Politics "Students of politics have much to learn from the author's seamless integration of current international debates into [her] work."--Nicholas Gammer, International Journal "Does Peacekeeping Work is readable, rigorous, and covers an important topic in the fields of international relations and conflict resolution. The text would be an excellent choice for graduate-level research methods classes to demonstrate the use of both qualitative and quantitative techniques in a problem-driven format; it also would work well in courses on international conflict management or international relations more broadly."--Maia Carter Hallward, International Journal on World Peace