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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aksu, Eşref, 1969-

Series:

New approaches to conflict analysis.

New approaches to conflict analysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Peacekeeping forces.

Humanitarian intervention.

Civil war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

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.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

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'être 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 1960's to the early 1990's.

Contents:

1. The UN and intra-state conflicts: problematising the normative connection

2. Rethinking the UN through intra-state peacekeeping: the analytical framework

3. The UN's role in historical context: impact of structural tensions and thresholds

4. UN peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts: evolution of the normative basis

5. The UN in the Congo conflict: ONUC

6. The UN in the Cyprus conflict: UNFICYP

7. The UN in the Angola conflict: UNAVEM

8. The UN in the Cambodia conflict: UNTAC

9. Reflections on international normative change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786610734641

9781847795960

184779596X

9781781700525

1781700524

9781280734649

1280734647

9781847790910

1847790917

9781423706625

1423706625

OCLC:

61661463