TY - BOOK AU - Friesendorf, Cornelius AB - Intervening states apply different approaches to the use force in war-torn countries. Calibrating the use of force according to the situation on the ground requires a convergence of military and police roles: soldiers have to be able to scale down, and police officers to scale up their use of force. In practice, intervening states display widely differing abilities to demonstrate such versatility. This paper argues that these differences are shaped by how the domestic institutions of sending states mediate between demands for versatile force and their own intervention practices. It considers the use of force by Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States in three contexts of international intervention: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan. The paper highlights quite different responses to security problems as varied as insurgency, terrorism, organised crime and riots. This analysis offers important lessons. Those planning and implementing international interventions should take into account differences in the use of force. At the same time, moving towards versatile force profoundly changes the characteristics of security forces and may increase their short-term risks. This difficulty points to a key message emerging from this paper: effective, sustainable support to states emerging from conflict will only be feasible if intervening states reform their own security policies and practices. DO - 10.5334/bbo ID - OAPEN ID: 1004239 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1078955207 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25847 KW - security sector reform KW - good governance KW - democracy KW - intervention KW - use of force KW - versatile force L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25847/1/international-intervention-and-the-use-of-force.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25847/1/international-intervention-and-the-use-of-force.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25847/1/international-intervention-and-the-use-of-force.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25847/1/international-intervention-and-the-use-of-force.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33038 PB - Ubiquity Press PP - London PY - 2012 SN - 9781911529316 TI - International Intervention and the Use of Force : Military and Police Roles ER -