The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping
Case Studies and Comparative Analysis
Published on 25. February 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-333-61583-6 (ISBN)
Description
'...highly recommended as a brief but thorough and very intelligent guide. It describes not only what the UN did, but how it did it: how its task forces were put together (always ad hoc), how they were controlled (usually chaotically), and how they were financed (always inadequately).' Michael Howard, London Review of Books United Nations peacekeepers have been sent around the world for nearly five decades to help war-weary people maintain cease-fires, implement force separations, and most recently, make transitions to democracy. Half of those missions have begun since the end of the Cold War and have helped make the UN headline news. The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping is the first comprehensive post-Cold War assessment of this important tool of conflict containment, its recent, rapid growth and development, the factors that make it work, and the new pressures that place the whole concept at risk. Based on a two-year study for the Ford Foundation by the Henry L.Stimson Center, this book includes twenty case studies of UN peacekeeping operations from 1947 to 1991 and is suitable for use in courses on international law and organization, regional conflict, conflict management, and cooperative security.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
591 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-61583-6 (9780333615836)
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04/1993
Palgrave MacMillan
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I LESSONS LEARNED - Getting Involved: Political-Military Contexts - Paying the Tab: Financial Crises - Running the Show: Planning and Implementation - PART II PEACEKEEPING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST - Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB); K.Th. Birgisson - Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO); M.Ghali - Emergency Force I (UNEF I); M.Ghali - Emergency Force II (UNEF II); M.Ghali - Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF); M.Ghali - Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL); M.Ghali - Interim Force in Lebanon (UNFIL); M.Ghali - Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM); K.Th. Birgisson - The Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP); K.Th. Birgission - Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group (UNIMOG); B.D.Smith - Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM); W.J.Durch - PART III PEACEKEEPING IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA - Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP); K.Th.Birgisson - Transitional Executive Authority in West New Guinea (UNTEA); W.J.Durch - Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP); K.Th.Birgisson - PART IV PEACEKEEPING IN AFRICA - Operation in the Congo (ONUC); W.J.Durch - Transitional Assistance Group for Namibia (UNTAG); V.Page Fortna - Angola Verification Mission I (UNAVEM I); V.Page Fortna - Angola Verification Mission II (UNAVEM II); V.Page Fortna - Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO); W.J.Durch - PART V PEACEKEEPING IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE - Observer Mission in Central America (ONUCA); B.D.Smith & W.J.Durch - Epilogue: Peacekeeping in Uncharted Territory - Bibliography - Index - About the Authors