Humanitarian intervention and the United Nations / Norrie MacQueen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacQueen, Norrie, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.

United Nations.

Humanitarian intervention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A concise and analytical overview of the theoretical and moral issues raised by humanitarian intervention, relating this to the recent historical record.Divided into two parts, it will first explore the setting of contemporary humanitarian interventions in world politics and in political philosophy. It will ask what went wrong with the post-cold war settlement and will track the transition of UN peacekeeping from the cold war to the post-cold war period. The more philosophical aspects of humanitarian intervention will then be explored, along with the inter-linked roles of the media and public

Contents:

CONTENTS; UNITED NATIONS MILITARY INTERVENTIONS SINCE 1948; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; PRELIMINARIES; 1 EVOLUTION: INTERVENTION AND HUMANITARIANISM FROM COLLECTIVE SECURITY TO PEACEKEEPING; 2 AFTER THE COLD WAR: A NEW WORLD ORDER?; 3 SOVEREIGNTY AND COMMUNITY: A 'RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT'?; 4 AFRICA: POST-COLONIAL INTERVENTION AMIDST FRAGILE STATEHOOD; 5 HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND COERCIVE ACTION: THE BALKANS; 6 A MODEL INTERVENTION? THE BIRTH OF TIMOR LESTE; 7 IS IT WORTH IT? SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN UN INTERVENTION; FURTHER READING; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613133137

9780748672035

0748672036

9781283133135

128313313X

9780748636983

0748636986

OCLC:

730151834