Roland Paris

Roland Paris examines recent international peacekeeping missions in an effort to determine their success and ways to make peacekeeping even more successful in leading to lasting peace. Mr. Paris focuses on peacekeeping missions that followed civil wars.

I am certainly no expert in this area, but his recommendation that lasting peace requires the building of effective government and civil institutions before democratic and market reforms are introduced makes intuitive sense.

This is an academic text, well footnoted with an extensive bibliography. At the same time, it presents a series of case studies and is easily read by general readers (like me).… (more)