© Columbia University Press
Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past
Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12912-1
$25.00
/ £14.50
November, 2004
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12913-8
$82.50
/ £48.50
"Brief and compelling book." — David Isenberg, Asia Times
"Marten draws a sharp distinction between when the international community should assert a heavy hand and when it should tread lightly." — Salaman Ahmed, Foreign Affairs
"It is a book that every student of world politics should read." — Andrew Preston, International Journal
"Enforcing the Peace is well written, combining high academic quality with popular relevance and accessibility." — Kristoffer Liden, Journal of Peace Research
"Marten offers an invaluable analysis of the challenges of contemporary peacekeeping." — David Edelstein, Political Science Quarterly
"Instructive." — Tony Smith, Perspectives on Politics
"An important, useful, and timely contribution to our understanding of peacekeeping." — Satish P. Joshi, H-War
"Provocative. . . .Others have seen parallels between peacekeeping operations and colonialism, but Marten takes that analogy and develops it to its logical and highly controversial conclusion--that colonialism provides a potential model for success and can rescue complex peacekeeping operations from their steady stream of failures. This is an important and much needed addition to the peacekeeping literature. Although some might view the presumed parallels between colonialism and peacekeeping to be polemical, Marten's coolly reasoned and historically rich arguments should cause even the most dismissive to take a hard look and to wrestle with her policy recommendations." — Michael Barnett, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of the University of Minnesota
"It used to be that international peacekeeping was simply a matter of policing cease fires. Now, UN peacekeeping is at or near the center of dealing with almost every major conflict, internal or external. Marten's new book should be at the center of our learning and thinking about the facts and the policy process. This is a very important book." — Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
"This admirably clear and concise volume examines unsentimentally the new generation of complex international peacekeeping operations, concluding that recent experiences in East Timor and Afghanistan could hold lessons for Iraq, the Ivory Coast and other current crises." — David M. Malone, president, International Peace Academy
"Efforts to maintain international order have long balanced the interests of the powerful against their perceptions of the needs of the powerless. In this sensitive and insightful new book, Kimberly Zisk Marten compares recent nation-building missions with their colonial forebears to argue for modesty in modern efforts at benevolent intervention. Her book is uncomfortable but essential reading for anyone interested in the capacity of external actors to bring peace to troubled lands." — Simon Chesterman, author of You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building