Re-envisioning peacekeeping : the United Nations and the mobilization of ideology / Francois Debrix.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debrix, François.

Series:

Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 13.

Borderlines ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peacekeeping forces.

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Time and again the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping missions in trouble spots around the globe: Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda. Has peace ensued? Have these missions, in fact, made any difference in the disorder and destruction they are purported to forestall? Or are they, as François Debrix contends in this critical revisiting of UN interventions, an illusion-more virtual peacekeeping than actual interventions in international affairs?

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Re-Envisioning the United Nations; 1. Destabilizing Leviathan: Revisiting the Order/ Anarchy Debate through a Postmodern(ized) Hobbes; 2. Space Quest: The UN and the Politics of Panoptic Surveillance; 3. From a Hopeless Situation to Operation Restore Hope, and Beyond: Suture, Ideology, and Simulation in Somalia; 4. Visions of Otherness and Interventionism in Bosnia, or How the West Was Won Again; 5. A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Medical Assistance and Humanitarianism as Substitutes for UN Peacekeeping; 6. Theorizing the Visual: New Critical Horizons; Appendix: Chronology of the Rwandan Crisis; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8970-9

OCLC:

476094703