ABSTRACT
A predominantly Western group of intervening actors, have been forcing, imposing, compelling, teaching or offering their various forms of order, values, systems, principles, techniques, organizations and governance on other actors. There have been UN-sanctioned post-conflict peacebuilding interventions, as well as controversial military invasions conducted without UN approval. In the decades after the Cold War, the world has witnessed a growth in international interventions. The number of such interventions, the number of intervening actors, the number of total personnel and the amounts of money spent all increased. The pervasive demand for civil–military coherence in interventions has emerged partly as a result of the perceived nature of wars and conflicts in the post-Cold War-world. The conglomerate of intervening actors in interventions is what distinguishes these the most from colonial possessions or traditional conquest of land in historical warfare. The military actors can be everything from occupying forces to unarmed observers; the civilians may represent a host of countries, organizations and corporations.
