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Enforcing the Peace : Learning from the Imperial Past
Enforcing the Peace Learning from the Imperial Past Author:Kimberly Zisk Marten Focusing on operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor in the mid- to late 1990s, while touching on the military occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, this daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations bear some surprising resemblances to the imperialism practiced by liberal states a century ago. Kimb... more »erly Zisk Marten draws lessons from that comparison, arguing that attempts by outsiders to control political developments in foreign societies are pipe dreams, and that a more sensible goal of foreign intervention is to provide basic security in unstable regions.« less