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Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations

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AUTHOR APPROVED ENDORSEMENT TO FOLLOW - JEN Does humanitarian intervention 'work'? Could it work better if approached differently? Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a chance'? Since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent surge in civil and international conflicts, the UN has been faced by an ever-increasing set of demands on its military capacity. This book traces the evolution of its armed humanitarian intervention from the grand ambitions for forceful collective security through the 'brushfire' peacekeeping of the cold war years to its engagement with the present globalised yet fractured world order. Key Features Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issues Explores the general setting of contemporary humanitarian intervention Assesses the actual record of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa and Southeast Asia Compiles a balance sheet of success and failure in the UN's efforts and confronts hard questions about their short and long-term value Norrie MacQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee. He is author of The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa (1997), The United Nations since 1945 (1999), United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 (2002), Peacekeeping and the International System (2006), Colonialism (2007) and The United Nations: A Beginner's Guide (2010).

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780748636969
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 256
  • Utgitt:
  • 24. mars 2011
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 164x240x19 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 518 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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AUTHOR APPROVED
ENDORSEMENT TO FOLLOW - JEN
Does humanitarian intervention 'work'? Could it work better if approached differently? Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a chance'?
Since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent surge in civil and international conflicts, the UN has been faced by an ever-increasing set of demands on its military capacity. This book traces the evolution of its armed humanitarian intervention from the grand ambitions for forceful collective security through the 'brushfire' peacekeeping of the cold war years to its engagement with the present globalised yet fractured world order.
Key Features
Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issues
Explores the general setting of contemporary humanitarian intervention
Assesses the actual record of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa and Southeast Asia
Compiles a balance sheet of success and failure in the UN's efforts and confronts hard questions about their short and long-term value
Norrie MacQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee. He is author of The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa (1997), The United Nations since 1945 (1999), United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 (2002), Peacekeeping and the International System (2006), Colonialism (2007) and The United Nations: A Beginner's Guide (2010).

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