Land of blue helmets : the United Nations and the Arab world / edited by Karim Makdisi and Vijay Prashad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Makdisi, Karim, 1970- editor.

Prashad, Vijay, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Middle East--History.

United Nations.

History.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 528 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Born in 1945, the United Nations came to life in the Arab world. It was there that the UN dealt with early diplomatic challenges that helped shape its institutions such as peacekeeping and political mediation. It was also there that the UN found itself trapped in, and sometimes part of, confounding geopolitical tensions in key international conflicts in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, such as hostilities between Palestine and Iraq and between Libya and Syria. Much has changed over the past seven decades, but what has not changed is the central role played by the UN. This book's claim is that the UN is a constant site of struggle in the Arab world and equally that the Arab world serves as a location for the UN to define itself against the shifting politics of its age. Looking at the UN from the standpoint of the Arab world, this volume collects some of the finest scholars and practitioners writing about the potential and the problems of a UN that is framed by both the promises of its Charter and the contradictions of its member states. This is a landmark book--a close and informed study of the UN in the region that taught the organization how to do its many jobs"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The role of the UN Secretary General: a historical assessment / Andrew Gilmour

Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as seen from a Special Commission / Lori Allen

On behalf of the United Nations: serving as Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council for Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 / Richard Falk

The UN statehood bid: Palestine's flirtation with multilateralism / Noura Erakat

Why the UN is not the problem in Syria / Asli Bali and Aziz Rana

Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 for Lebanon in the shadow of the "War on Terror" / Karim Makdisi

The UN Security Council and ghosts of Iraq / Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone

Iraq: war, sanctions, and more: twenty years in the shadow of Chapter VII / Coralie Hindawi

Libya: a UN resolution and NATO's failure to protect / Jeff Bachman

Peacekeeping and the Arab world: India's rise and its impact on UN missions in Sudan / Zachariah Mampilly

The UN human rights game and the Arab region: playing not to lose / Fateh Azzam

The politics of the sanctions on Iraq and the UN humanitarian exception / Hans Christof von Sponeck

An agency for the Palestinians / Jalal Al Husseini

Challenged but steadfast: nine years with Palestinian refugees and UNRWA / Filippo Grandi

UNHCR and the Iraq Refugee Operation (2007-2009): resettling refugees, changing the Middle East humanitarian landscape / Arafat Jamal

The Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East / Shaden Khallaf

The Middle East: a mandatory return to humanitarian action / Caroline Abu-Sada

The UN, ESCWA, and development in the Arab world / Omar Dahi

The United Nations and Palestine, liberation and development / Raja Khalidi

Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western strategies in the context of colonization / Mandy Turner

ILO and workers' rights in the Arab region: the need to return to the basics / Walid Hamdan

Development as counterinsurgency in peacekeeping: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and "Quick Impact Projects" / Susanne Kassem

The protective shields: civil society organizations and the UN in the Arab region / Kinda Mohamadieh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Land of blue helmets.

ISBN:

9780520286931

0520286936

9780520286948

0520286944

OCLC:

941714605