Peace Maintenance

<p><em>Peace-Maintenance</em> explores the controversial concept that has evolved from diplomatic peacekeeping and military peace-enforcement. <strong>Jarat Chopra</strong> the architect of peace-maintenance outlines the limitations of traditional peacekeeping principles reliant on the increasingly questionable consent of belligerents. He traces the evolution of the political administrative legal and judicial ingredients of international authority. He draws on his extensive experience of peace operations with the United Nations using many examples to illustrate the context and evolution of peace-maintenance including in-depth studies of Somalia and Western Sahara.</p>