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The United Nations, peace operations and the Cold War / Norrie MacQueen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacQueen, Norrie, 1950-
- Series:
- Seminar studies in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--Peacekeeping forces--History.
- United Nations.
- Security, International--International cooperation--History.
- Security, International.
- Peace-building--International cooperation--History.
- Peace-building.
- Cold War.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- International cooperation.
- History.
- Peacekeeping forces.
- Physical Description:
- xlviii, 162 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pearson Longman, 2011.
- Summary:
- Each book in the Seminar Studies in History series provides a concise and reliable introduction to complex events and debates. Written by acknowledged experts and supported by extracts from historical Documents, a Chronology, Glossary, Who's Who of key figures and Guide to Further Reading, Seminar Studies in History are the essential guides to understanding a topic.
- Peace operations have become, perhaps, the most high profile of the activities undertaken by the United Nations in recent years. The United Nations, Peace Operations and the Cold War provides a unique account of the early development of this project during the critical cold war period.
- The concept of peacekeeping first emerged in the UN as a practical response to the challenges presented by the cold war. The ambitious project for the enforcement of collective security first set out in the UN charter proved unworkable in the polarised conditions of the time. Instead, more modestly scaled peace operations developed as a means of stamping out local 'brushfires' worldwide before they spread and grew into major global conflagrations involving the competing superpowers
- This thoroughly revised second edition focuses closely on the international politics of the Cold War years and incorporates recent studies and research to present a comprehensive up to date and informed narrative offering:
- An examination of peace operations in the pre United Nations period
- Wide ranging coverage of the history and geography of regional and global conflicts
- The UN s role in regulating conflicts stemming specifically from decolonisation and its impact on the international state system
- Analysis of the post-Cold War status of UN interventionism
- Supported by an extensive set of explanatory keys, charts and photographs, The United Nations Peace Operations and the Cold War will be a vital resource for students Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Background 1
- 1 The'Failure of The League Of Nations And the Beginnings Of The Un 3
- A New World Order? 3
- Managing Post-war Adjustment 4
- The Breakdown of the Collective Idea 5
- The War-time Origins of the UN 7
- Part 2 Analysis 15
- 2 The United Nations And The dilemas Of Collective Security 17
- International Security and the UN Charter 17
- The Onset of the Cold War and the End of the Illusion Korea 12
- 3 The (Re)discovery Of The Peackering 28
- Truce Supervision in Palestine 29
- Military Observation in'Kashmir 30
- The UN's First Peacekeeping Force Suez 32
- 4 Cold War Peacekeeping Conceptualised 40
- Hammarskjold's Summary Study and the 'Rules' of Peacekeeping 41
- Arab Nationalism and the International System: Lebanon and Yemen 45
- 5 The Peacekeeping Model Challenged: From The Congo To Cyprus 50
- Post-colonial Test: The Congo Morass 50
- The UN in West New Guinea: Peace without Honour? 61
- Peacekeeping within the Cold War Family: Cyprus 65
- The Legality of Peace Operations: The Article 19 Crisis 69
- 6 Superpower Detente And Peace Operationsin The Middle East 73
- Israel, Egypt, Syria and the 1973 war 74
- Lebanon in die Twilight of Detente 80
- 7 The 'Second' Cold War: Peace Suspended? 86
- Non-UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East 86
- Peace Operations Resume: The Namibia-Angola Arrangement 89
- 8 The End Of The Cold War 92
- Opportunity and Demand: The New Post-Cold War World 92
- Collective Security at Last? Operation Desert Storm 99
- Boutros-Ghalis Agenda for Peace 102
- Part 3 Assessment 105
- 9 Peace Operations And The Cold War:.A Balance Sheet 107
- Peace Operations and the Status of the United Nations 107
- Peace Operations and Regional Stability 109
- Peace Operations and the State 110
- Part Four Documents 115
- 1 The League of Nations international force in the Saar Territory 116
- 2 Collective security and the League of Nations 117
- 3 The Atlantic Charter: war-time pointers to a new security organisation 118
- 4 International security and the United Nations Charter 119
- 5 The Soviet Union and the veto 123
- 6 The Unified Command in Korea 124
- 7 The 'Uniting for Peace' resolution 124
- 8 Inter-war precursors of UN peace operations 125
- 9 The Truce Supervision Organization and the assassination of Count Bernadotte 126
- 10 Lester Pearson and the United Nations Emergency Force 128
- 11 The withdrawal of UNEF from Egypc, 1967 129
- 12 Hammarskjold's 'Summary Study' - Peacekeeping conceptualised 130
- 13 Three Security Council resolutions on the Congo 132
- 14 Exchange of letters between Congo prime minister Patrice Lumumba and UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold on the purpose of the UN operation in the Congo 134
- 15 Khrushchev and the'troika'proposal 135
- 16 The Congo - Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Katanga question 137
- 17 Hammarskjold and the Congo - The pressures of office 138
- 18 Forming the Cyprus Force 139
- 19 The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion-on the financing of peacekeeping 141
- 20 Detente and the 1973 Middle East war - The US perspective 142
- 21 Detente and the 1973 Middle East war- The Soviet perspective 143
- 22 Kurt Waldheim on the Lebanon force 144
- 23 Boutros Boutros-Ghali oh the end of me Somalia operation 145
- 24 Operation Desert Storm 146
- 25 An Agenda for Preface 146.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: United Nations since 1945 : peacekeeping and the Cold War. London : Longman, 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781408237663
- 1408237660
- OCLC:
- 712931289
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