Description
The five papers in the suggested panel examine and compare past cases of multilateral conflict management. Using a wide range of historical records, many of which were classified at the time, they provide a fine-grained analysis of the individual cases that is not available for more recent conflicts. The five papers place these historical case studies in a comparative framework and engage with existing approaches in studies of international politics and international law.
The papers thus aim to develop a historical, context-sensitive approach to global governance. They seek to identify more general patterns and challenges involved in foreign intervention and global governance: the lack of funds and context-specific knowledge by the intervening powers; the tendency of all interveners, including NGOs and UN actors, to exploit legal grey zones and covert means of interference to expand their influence on the affected regions; and the discrepancies between local needs, on the one hand, and the interests of the external interveners and states, on the other.
