Dennis C Jett
Biographic Data
| ID | 295543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis C Jett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jett |
| SIGNATURE | JETT D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Security Assistance in the Middle East
Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges and the Need for Change (SAME for short) is a volume of articles about military aid in what the book’s editors, Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, characterize as the most insecure and militarized region in the world. It is written mainly by academics for academics and, as the title indicates, it is limited to one area of the world.It deserves a much wider readership as it has important lessons…
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace
Peacekeeping, and the conflicts to which it is applied, have evolved since the United Nations began these operations in 1948. Today, the UN has 90,000 peacekeepers deployed around the world in 12 operations that cost the international community $6.5 billion a year. Half of these missions have been going on for a combined total of three centuries, with no solution in sight to any of them. Five of the remaining six are in response to violent extrem…
American Ambassadors
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons
The situation in the Western Sahara illustrates an unfortunate aspect of international relations: When countries pursue their national interests and ignore international principles, they can create problems that defy resolution. Such problems are often dumped in the lap of the United Nations, which frequently lacks the means to solve them. The struggle between Morocco's desire to annex the Western Sahara and the Algerian‐backed effort for it to b…
American Ambassadors
The Iran Nuclear Deal
What price the court of St. James? Political influences on ambassadorial postings of the United States of America
This paper explores the appointment of career diplomats and political appointees to ambassadorial positions. We present models of the strategic interaction of political donors and presidential candidates, which predicts that donations will match the quality of diplomatic posting granted by the candidate. We test this prediction and confirm it for four presidential terms representing two presidents and 764 diplomatic postings over the 2000 to 2013…
What Can Peacekeepers Do If There Is No Peace to Keep
One Man's Terrorist
L osing the W ar on T error
U.S. Security Assistance in the Middle East
Why American foreign policy fails
The United States confronts today's world with a foreign policy that is neither consistent enough to be called a policy nor adequately responsive to foreign threats and opportunities. It is instead constructed in the marketplace of interests, and not ideas, that Washington has become. As a result, it is more likely to serve special interests rather than the national interest. This has come about because the end of the Cold War, globalization, and…
The Politics of Peace in Mozambique
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Why peacekeeping fails
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Similar Histories, Different Outcomes
There are a number of factors particular to each conflict that can greatly affect the chances that peacekeepers will be able to help find permanent peace. They include the conflict’s history, what kind of peace there is to keep, how that peace was negotiated, and the intentions and good faith of the parties. Mozambique and Angola differed significantly in all of these conflict-specific factors, even though both countries obtained their independen…
Cementing democracy
The success of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Mozambique in establishing the conditions for the rebuilding of a country devastated by 16 years of civil war is assessed. Difficulties were encountered in both the military and electoral phases of the operation. But these were overcome and the UN's Special Representative, Aldo Ajello, had good cause for satisfaction on the completion of his mission in December 1994. However, in the long…
The Politics of Peace in Mozambique
What price the court of St. James? Political influences on ambassadorial postings of the United States of America
This paper explores the appointment of career diplomats and political appointees to ambassadorial positions. We present models of the strategic interaction of political donors and presidential candidates, which predicts that donations will match the quality of diplomatic posting granted by the candidate. We test this prediction and confirm it for four presidential terms representing two presidents and 764 diplomatic postings over the 2000 to 2013…
Why Peacekeeping Fails
U.S. Security Assistance in the Middle East
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace
Peacekeeping, and the conflicts to which it is applied, have evolved since the United Nations began these operations in 1948. Today, the UN has 90,000 peacekeepers deployed around the world in 12 operations that cost the international community $6.5 billion a year. Half of these missions have been going on for a combined total of three centuries, with no solution in sight to any of them. Five of the remaining six are in response to violent extrem…
Cementing democracy
The success of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Mozambique in establishing the conditions for the rebuilding of a country devastated by 16 years of civil war is assessed. Difficulties were encountered in both the military and electoral phases of the operation. But these were overcome and the UN's Special Representative, Aldo Ajello, had good cause for satisfaction on the completion of his mission in December 1994. However, in the long…
Similar Histories, Different Outcomes
There are a number of factors particular to each conflict that can greatly affect the chances that peacekeepers will be able to help find permanent peace. They include the conflict’s history, what kind of peace there is to keep, how that peace was negotiated, and the intentions and good faith of the parties. Mozambique and Angola differed significantly in all of these conflict-specific factors, even though both countries obtained their independen…
Why peacekeeping fails
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Why Peacekeeping Fails
The Politics of Peace in Mozambique
Why American foreign policy fails
The United States confronts today's world with a foreign policy that is neither consistent enough to be called a policy nor adequately responsive to foreign threats and opportunities. It is instead constructed in the marketplace of interests, and not ideas, that Washington has become. As a result, it is more likely to serve special interests rather than the national interest. This has come about because the end of the Cold War, globalization, and…
U.S. Security Assistance in the Middle East
L osing the W ar on T error
One Man's Terrorist
What Can Peacekeepers Do If There Is No Peace to Keep
What price the court of St. James? Political influences on ambassadorial postings of the United States of America
This paper explores the appointment of career diplomats and political appointees to ambassadorial positions. We present models of the strategic interaction of political donors and presidential candidates, which predicts that donations will match the quality of diplomatic posting granted by the candidate. We test this prediction and confirm it for four presidential terms representing two presidents and 764 diplomatic postings over the 2000 to 2013…
The Iran Nuclear Deal
American Ambassadors
American Ambassadors
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons
The situation in the Western Sahara illustrates an unfortunate aspect of international relations: When countries pursue their national interests and ignore international principles, they can create problems that defy resolution. Such problems are often dumped in the lap of the United Nations, which frequently lacks the means to solve them. The struggle between Morocco's desire to annex the Western Sahara and the Algerian‐backed effort for it to b…
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace
Peacekeeping, and the conflicts to which it is applied, have evolved since the United Nations began these operations in 1948. Today, the UN has 90,000 peacekeepers deployed around the world in 12 operations that cost the international community $6.5 billion a year. Half of these missions have been going on for a combined total of three centuries, with no solution in sight to any of them. Five of the remaining six are in response to violent extrem…
Security Assistance in the Middle East
Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges and the Need for Change (SAME for short) is a volume of articles about military aid in what the book’s editors, Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, characterize as the most insecure and militarized region in the world. It is written mainly by academics for academics and, as the title indicates, it is limited to one area of the world.It deserves a much wider readership as it has important lessons…
Political science (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (7 works) · Peacekeeping (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works)