"Enforcing the Peace" by Kimberly Zisk Marten - - author event and book signing

Wednesday, January 26 @ 6:30 PM — Stanford Bookstore Art Alcove

Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past

by Kimberly Zisk Marten

Focusing on operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor in the mid- to late 1990s, while touching on the military occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, this daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations bear some surprising resemblances to the imperialism practiced by liberal states a century ago. Kimberly Zisk Marten draws lessons from that comparison, arguing that attempts by outsiders to control political developments in foreign societies are pipe dreams, and that a more sensible goal of foreign intervention is to provide basic security in unstable regions.

Kimberly Zisk Marten is an associate professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University.