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Enforcing the Peace

Learning from the Imperial Past

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

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Enforcing the Peace

Learning from the Imperial Past

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations resemble the imperialism practiced by liberal states a century ago.

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0231129130

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Engaging the Enemy

Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991

By: Kimberly Marten Zisk

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Engaging the Enemy

Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991

By: Kimberly Marten Zisk

Did a "doctrine race" exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West? Using recent insights from organization theory, Kimberly Marten Zisk answers this question in the affirmative. Zisk challenges the standard portrayal of Soviet military officers as bureaucratic actors wedded to the status quo: she maintains that when they were confronted by a changing external security environment, they reacted by producing innovative doctrine. The author's extensive evidence is drawn from newly declassified Soviet military journals, and from her interviews with retired high-ranking Soviet General Staff officers and highly placed Soviet-Russian civilian defense experts. According to Zisk, the Cold War in Europe was powerfully influenced by the reactions of Soviet military officers and civilian defense experts to modifications in U.S. and NATO military doctrine. Zisk also asserts that, contrary to the expectations of many analysts, civilian intervention in military policy-making need not provoke pitched civil-military conflict. Under Gorbachev's leadership, for instance, great efforts were made to ensure that "defensive defense" policies reflected military officers' input and expertise. Engaging the Enemy makes an important contribution not only to the theory of military organizations and the history of Soviet military policy but also to current policy debates on East-West security issues. Kimberly Marten Zisk is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate of the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University.

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Princeton University Press

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1400820936

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Engaging the Enemy

Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991

By: Kimberly Marten Zisk

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Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991

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Warlords

Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States

By: Kimberly Marten

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Warlords

Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States

By: Kimberly Marten

Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovereignty. Unlike the feudal lords of a previous era, warlords today are not state-builders. Instead they collude with cost-conscious, corrupt, or frightened state officials to flout and undermine state capacity. They thrive on illegality, relying on private militias for support, and often provoke violent resentment from those who are cut out of their networks. Some act as middlemen for competing states, helping to hollow out their own states from within. Countries ranging from the United States to Russia have repeatedly chosen to ally with warlords, but Marten argues that to do so is a dangerous proposition. Drawing on interviews, documents, local press reports, and in-depth historical analysis, Marten examines warlordism in the Pakistani tribal areas during the twentieth century, in post-Soviet Georgia and the Russian republic of Chechnya, and among Sunni militias in the U.S.-supported Anbar Awakening and Sons of Iraq programs. In each case state leaders (some domestic and others foreign) created, tolerated, actively supported, undermined, or overthrew warlords and their militias. Marten draws lessons from these experiences to generate new arguments about the relationship between states, sovereignty, "local power brokers," and stability and security in the modern world.

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Cornell University Press

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0801464110

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9780801464119

Enforcing the Peace

Learning from the Imperial Past

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

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Learning from the Imperial Past

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Anarchy breeds terrorism, yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to supporting and maintaining peaceful rule. This daring work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations bear a surprising resemblance to the imperialism practiced by liberal states a century ago. It shows how the West's attempts to remake foreign societies in their own image-even with the best of intentions-invariably fail. Focusing on operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor in the mid- to late 1990s, while touching on both postwar Afghanistan and the occupation of Iraq, Enforcing the Peace compares these cases to the colonial activities of Great Britain, France, and the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. As an alternative to trying to control political developments abroad, Marten shows how serious foreign intervention can restore basic security to unstable regions. She argues that the colonial experience demonstrates that military organizations police effectively if political leaders prioritize the task. The time has come to raise the importance of armed peacekeeping on the international agenda.

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Columbia University Press

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0231129122

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9780231129121

Weapons, Culture, and Self-interest

Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

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Weapons, Culture, and Self-interest

Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

Describes the effects of the fall of the Soviet Union on Soviet defense enterprise managers, examining what happens when the members of a political and economic elite of a well-established social system are confronted with radical change. In doing so, the author bridges the gap between political economy and international security perspectives on Russian defense industrial reform. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Columbia University Press

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0231110782

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Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

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Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO

By: Kimberly Zisk Marten

Kimberly Marten outlines how U.S. policymakers can deter Russian aggression with robust support for NATO, while reassuring Russia of NATO's defensive intentions through clear words and actions based in international law.

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Council on Foreign Relations Press

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0876097107

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Enforcing the Peace

Enforcing the Peace

Engaging the Enemy

Engaging the Enemy

Engaging the Enemy

Engaging the Enemy

Warlords

Warlords

Enforcing the Peace

Enforcing the Peace

Weapons, Culture, and Self-interest

Weapons, Culture, and Self-interest

Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO

Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO

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