Drawing on a range of different approaches and perspectives, this book attempts to set and develop a new agenda for IPE research. It lays down the theoretical foundations of a new IPE, provides new perspectives on orthodox IPE concerns and highlights previously neglected issues and approaches
Asserts that in light of the lessons learned from the early 1990s multilateral humanitarian operation in Somalia, future engagements can only be conducted after understanding the context of the intervention, a common definition of the objective is reached, & a coherent strategy is implemented & led by an autonomous leader to manage the intervention. Somalia has demonstrated the limited usefulness of force & the contradictory nature of the term "peace enforcement." Casualties present a major obstacle to intervening countries due to the limited price the government & its citizens are willing to pay in defense of nonvital interests. Local armed groups are a reality that can cause casualties & quickly shift international opinion & determination. It is argued that in Somalia, the UN failed to recognize the interplay of negotiation, consensus, & force in effectively pursuing peace enforcement. M. Greenberg
In: International political science review: the journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) = Revue internationale de science politique, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 71-85
This article treats modern international institutions as means of regulating the lateral pressure generated by the industrial system. The linking roles played by post-war international institutions in decolonization and development should be thought of as part of a transnational political system regulating conflict in the vast international economic region that was formed among the industrialized states with market economies and their Third World dependencies. This political system grew out of civil society, the voluntary political realm identified by Antonio Gramsci as the social sphere in which aspirations develop and political identities form. Within the Third World the involvement of international institutions in decolonization and development helped both to create, and constantly to reinforce, civil society at the national level. As a result, the recent crises in international institutions and those in much of the Third World are intimately linked.