Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations

Afghanistan and Lebanon

Chiara Ruffa

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University of Pennsylvania Press
15 June 2018

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; United Nations & UN agencies; Peacekeeping operations

As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on their goals and impact. Yet we know surprisingly little about the factors that prompt soldiers' behavior. Despite being deployed on the same mission under similar conditions, various national contingents display significant, systematic differences in their actions on the ground.

In Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, Chiara Ruffa challenges the widely held assumption that military contingents, regardless of their origins, implement mandates in a similar manner. She argues instead that military culture-the set of attitudes, values, and beliefs instilled into an army and transmitted across generations of those in uniform -influences how soldiers behave at the tactical level. When soldiers are abroad, they are usually deployed as units, and when a military unit deploys, its military culture goes with it. By investigating where military culture comes from, Ruffa demonstrates why military units conduct themselves the way they do.

Between 2007 and 2014, Ruffa was embedded in French and Italian units deployed under comparable circumstances in two different kinds of peace and stability operations: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Based on hundreds of interviews, she finds that while French units prioritized patrolling and the display of high levels of protection and force-such as body armor and weaponry-Italian units placed greater emphasis on delivering humanitarian aid. She concludes that civil-military relations and societal beliefs about the use of force in the units' home country have an impact on the military culture overseas, soldiers' perceptions and behavior, and, ultimately, consequences for their ability to keep the peace.

By: Chiara Ruffa
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780812250183
ISBN 10: 0812250184
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 June 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chiara Ruffa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Security, Strategy, and Leadership at the Swedish Defense University in Stockholm.

Reviews for Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations: Afghanistan and Lebanon

Arguing that national military cultures influence the ways in which military units in peace operations behave, Chiara Ruffa has developed an original set of theoretical concepts that illuminate the question of peace operations effectiveness. Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations is a landmark book. -Roy Licklider, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations provides the most in-depth research ever conducted on peacekeeping forces and a pioneering analysis of how military culture dynamically influences military behavior and effectiveness. Anyone interested in the connection between military sociology and security studies should read this book. -Yagil Levy, The Open University of Israel Blending sociological analysis, ethnographic data, and an original methodology, Chiara Ruffa produces a persuasive argument about the impact of domestic factors on military culture and how these factors in turn shape the space in which the military operates in peacekeeping missions. -Christopher Dandeker, King's College London

Long-listed for Awarded Third Place for the 2019 Giueseppe Caforio Award for Best Book by the European Research Group on Military and Society 2021
Winner of Awarded Third Place for the 2019 Giueseppe Caforio Award for Best Book by the European Research Group on Military and Society.