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Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations / Norrie MacQueen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 9 MapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748636969
  • 9780748636983
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.17
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- United Nations military interventions since 1948 -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Preliminaries -- Chapter 1 Evolution: intervention and humanitarianism from collective security to peacekeeping -- Chapter 2 After the cold war: a new world order? -- Chapter 3 Sovereignty and community: a ‘responsibility to protect’? -- Chapter 4 Africa: post-colonial intervention amidst fragile statehood -- Chapter 5 Humanitarian intervention and coercive action: the Balkans -- Chapter 6 A model intervention? The birth of Timor Leste -- Chapter 7 Is it worth it? Success and failure in UN intervention -- Further reading -- Index
Summary: Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary worldMacQueen assesses armed humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Using empirical evidence, he compiles a 'balance sheet' of the UN's successes and failures and asks hard questions about humanitarian intervention's short and long-term value.Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesCase study chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and East TimorConfronts hard questions about the short and long-term value of these interventions
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- United Nations military interventions since 1948 -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Preliminaries -- Chapter 1 Evolution: intervention and humanitarianism from collective security to peacekeeping -- Chapter 2 After the cold war: a new world order? -- Chapter 3 Sovereignty and community: a ‘responsibility to protect’? -- Chapter 4 Africa: post-colonial intervention amidst fragile statehood -- Chapter 5 Humanitarian intervention and coercive action: the Balkans -- Chapter 6 A model intervention? The birth of Timor Leste -- Chapter 7 Is it worth it? Success and failure in UN intervention -- Further reading -- Index

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Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary worldMacQueen assesses armed humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Using empirical evidence, he compiles a 'balance sheet' of the UN's successes and failures and asks hard questions about humanitarian intervention's short and long-term value.Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesCase study chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and East TimorConfronts hard questions about the short and long-term value of these interventions

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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