The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change / Eşref Aksu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aksu, Eşref, 1969-

Series:

New approaches to conflict analysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Peacekeeping forces.

Humanitarian intervention.

Civil war.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

United Nations, intrastate peacekeeping and normative change

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003.

Summary:

This study explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance. The book examines both the UN's changing raison d'ê tre and the wider normative context within which the organization is located. The study looks at the UN through the window of one of its most contentious, yet least understood, practices: active involvement in intra-state conflicts as epitomized by UN peacekeeping. Drawing on the conceptual tools provided by the "historical structural" approach, this study seeks to understand how and why the international community continuously reinterprets or redefines the UN's role with regard to intra-state conflicts. The study concentrates on intra-states "peacekeeping environments," and examines what changes, if any, have occurred to the normative basis of UN peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts from the early 1960s to the early 1990s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-230) and index.

ISBN:

0719067480

OCLC:

52902767