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United Nations transitional administrations in post-conflict countries are "ill-structured," argues this work, meaning that they induce complexities, uncertainties, and ambiguities that are likely to introduce pathological behaviors into the mission that undermine its goals and often lead towards failure. In spite of this inherent ill-structured quality of transitional administrations, the work does identify two cases as partial successes--UN operations in East Timor and in the Croatian region of Eastern Slavonia--and seeks to identify and describe the coping behavior and contingency strategies that allowed these missions to prevent, reduce, or contain the pathologies ensuing from ill-structured conditions. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
