Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Winckler Joel Gwyn
    Managing the Complexities of Intervention: United Nations Peace Operations as Organisational Action
    in Peace, Conflict and Development , Issue 18, Special Issue "Approaches to Peace and Conflict, what is missing?", December ,  2011 ,  83-103
    This article assesses a major gap in the literature on UN peace operations in post-war situations, which may be described as the ‘organisation of intervention’. Research has extensively pointed at the UN’s failure to achieve its own objectives and operationally reach its own standards of interventions. However, there has been very little consideration of the means of the UN as a bureaucratic organisation, which manages and copes with these ambiguities and failures of intervention. This article theoretically explores the organizational conditions and processes through which UN officials manage the gaps between aims and achievements of UN peace operations as an integral part of their daily work. The goal is to develop a theoretical framework to analyse the internal organisational rules and procedures of the UN, which enable as well as affect the daily management and routine of peace operations in interaction with its environment. For this purpose, the article includes approaches of organizational sociology to understand UN peacekeeping and draws on empirical illustrations to clarify propositions for further research. Full text available online at http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/dl/6%20Iss%2018%20Art%2036%20Final.pdf
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