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Promoting Peace with Information

Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes

By: Daniel Lindley

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Hardcover | 13 May 2007

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It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversarial nations. The more adversaries understand each other's intentions and capabilities, the thinking goes, the less likely they are to be led to war by miscalculations and unwarranted fears. But how is transparency provided, how does it actually work, and how effective is it in preserving or restoring peace? In Promoting Peace with Information, Dan Lindley provides the first scholarly answer to these important questions.

Lindley rigorously examines a wide range of cases, including U.N. peacekeeping operations in Cyprus, the Golan Heights, Namibia, and Cambodia; arms-control agreements, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and the historical example of the Concert of Europe, which sought to keep the peace following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. Making nuanced arguments based on extensive use of primary sources, interviews, and field research, Lindley shows when transparency succeeds in promoting peace, and when it fails. His analysis reveals, for example, that it is surprisingly hard for U.N. buffer-zone monitors to increase transparency, yet U.N. nation-building missions have creatively used transparency to refute harmful rumors and foster democracy.

For scholars, Promoting Peace with Information is a major advance into the relatively uncharted intersection of institutionalism and security studies. For policymakers, its findings will lead to wiser peacekeeping, public diplomacy, and nation building.

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"The book is especially impressive in the execution of the research... There is something for many (not quite everyone), and readers will profit by learning about topics that they thought they already knew, as well as other topics that they could stand to learn more about"----Paul F. Diehl, Perspectives on Politics

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Warfare & Defence War & Defence Operations Peacekeeping Operations Politics & Government Comparative Politics International Relations International Institutions

List of Tables	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Promoting Peace with Information	p. 1
Theory, Methods, and Case Selection	p. 17
The Concert of Europe: Forum Diplomacy and Crisis Management	p. 55
The United Nations Force in Cyprus	p. 86
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights	p. 118
The United Nations Transition Assistance Group for Namibia	p. 142
The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 180
Information Operations in Recent U.N. Peacekeeping Missions	p. 197
Insights on Transparency from the Open Skies, Strategic Arms Control, and Non-Proliferation Regimes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 269
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