The Challenge of Civil-military Relations in International Peace Operations |
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Authors: | Michael Pugh |
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Institution: | Department of Politics, International Studies Centre, University of Plymouth. mpugh@plymouth.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state-centric foundations of military intervention run counter to the potential for humanitarian organisations to foster a cosmopolitan ethos that would not only preserve humanitarian principles but also contest statist assumptions about conflict, development and power. |
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Keywords: | humanitarian principles civil-military relations peace support operations cosmopolitanism |
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