The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping
William J. Durch(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 1995
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-333-65619-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 a 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 20 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 co-operative security.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-65619-8 (9780333656198)
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Content
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.