
The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations
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The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations is timely as the recent debates over PSOs continue to take center stage. This work embodies a new set of ideas and concepts that aid in grasping and interpreting the transformations taking place in the world of war and in PSOs. It seeks to understand how social, economic, political, and organizational transformations around the globe are related to the complex links between armed forces and PSOs. Additionally, this work addresses issues that continue to define the character and makeup of modern warfare and the missions of PSOs for coming decades.
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David Kellen is the Israeli Coordinator of the Strategic Affairs Unit at the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information. David holds an MA in Conflict Analysis from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Together with Kobi Michael, he has published several articles on peacekeeping in the Israeli-Palestinian context and has co-edited Stabilizing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Considerations for a Multinational Peace Support Operation (2007).
Eyal Ben-Ari is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has carried out research in Japan, Israel, and Singapore on white collar communities, early childhood education, business expatriates, the Israeli and Japanese militaries and peacekeeping forces. His previous publications include Body Projects in Japanese Childcare (1997), Mastering Soldiers (1998), Rethinking the Sociology of Combat: Israel's Combat Units in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (with Zev Lehrer, Uzi Ben Shalom-, and Ariel Vainer) (2008). Among his recent edited books are The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society (with Edna Lomsky-Feder) (2000), War, Politics and Society in Israel (with Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek) (2001), and Echoes of Partition (with Smita Jassal) 2006).
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2. The End of War? The Use of Force in the Twenty-First
Century
3. From Conscription Based Defense to Volunteer-Based
Constabulary Forces
4. Peace Support Operations and the Strategic Corporal
5. Media and Conflict: An Integral Part of the Modern
Battlefield
6. The RMA, Transformation, and Peace Support Operations
7. Transformation or Back to Basics? Counterinsurgency
.
8. Civil-Military Aspects of Effectiveness in Peace
Support Operations
9. The Role of Private Security Companies in Peace Support
Operations
:10. Cultural Intelligence for Peace Support Operations in
the New Era of Warfare
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