Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations
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Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations

About this book

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 FeaturesPresents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesExplores the general setting of contemporary humanitarian interventionAssesses the actual record of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa and Southeast AsiaCompiles a balance sheet of success and failure in the UN's efforts and confronts hard questions about their short and long-term value

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Yes, you can access Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations by Norrie MacQueen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Relaciones internacionales. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. UNITED NATIONS MILITARY INTERVENTIONS SINCE 1948
  3. ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
  4. PRELIMINARIES
  5. 1 EVOLUTION: INTERVENTION AND HUMANITARIANISM FROM COLLECTIVE SECURITY TO PEACEKEEPING
  6. 2 AFTER THE COLD WAR: A NEW WORLD ORDER?
  7. 3 SOVEREIGNTY AND COMMUNITY: A 'RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT'?
  8. 4 AFRICA: POST-COLONIAL INTERVENTION AMIDST FRAGILE STATEHOOD
  9. 5 HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND COERCIVE ACTION: THE BALKANS
  10. 6 A MODEL INTERVENTION? THE BIRTH OF TIMOR LESTE
  11. 7 IS IT WORTH IT? SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN UN INTERVENTION
  12. FURTHER READING
  13. INDEX