The United Nations trusteeship system : legacies, continuities and change / Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick, and Julius Heise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lüdert, Jan, 1977- author.

Ketzmerick, Maria, author.

Heise, Julius, 1989- author.

Series:

Global Institutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations. Trusteeship Council.

United Nations.

International trusteeships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2022]

Summary:

"This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations, and international politics. International contributors address the UN Trusteeship System as a venue for multiple state and non-state actors and its effect on the international system. Rather than viewing UN trusteeship as a bygone phenomenon the volume underscores its current relevance, particularly in view of the recent resurgence of trusteeship models such as in Kosovo and East Timor. Offering a novel and robust, yet simple and intuitive analytical framework through which to understand a broad range of cases related to the trusteeship system and its impact on the international system the book places emphasis on the agency of states in the global South and highlights the importance of multiple actors in global governance. It will be of interest to scholars of international relations theory and history in a variety of fields, ranging from African Politics, to Intergovernmental Organizations and Comparative Politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Figures

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Contextualizing Trusteeship: From Colonial Interests Toward Anti-Colonial Ambitions

Situated in Interdisciplinary Research

Notes

2 Institutional Design of the UN Trusteeship System: Between Colonial Interests and Anti-Colonial Ambitions

From the League of Nations to the United Nations

Laying the Groundwork: From the US Department of State Working Paper to the Yalta Conference

From San Francisco to London: Carving Out Substantive and Procedural Inroads

UNCIO Committee II/4: Innovating Within a Bifurcated Colonial System

Innovating Access and Participatory Mechanisms Through Committee II/4

The Preparatory Commission of the United Nations: Securing Compliance

Securing Voluntary Compliance: The Approval of Trust Territory Agreements

Delegated Authority By the Secretary-General: Creating a NSGTs Venue

A Wedge in the Colonial System: Petitions and Visiting Missions

Uncharted Ground: Petitioning Via the Trusteeship Council

Having a Voice and an Ear With the International Audience: Oral Hearings, Written Petitions, and Visiting Missions

Concluding Remarks

3 Decolonization and (The Limits Of) UN Agency: The UN Secretariat and the Trusteeship System

Introduction

Wartime Planning

A Secretariat View On Trusteeship

The Confines of the Trusteeship System

Personal Confines

Conclusion

4 Partitioning Togoland By Nullifying the Right to Petition

Significance of Petitions in the Anti-Colonial Struggle

Right to Petition: Brief Historical Overview and State of the Art

Antecedents: Togolese Petitions Under German Rule and the League of Nations.

Petitions Under UN Trusteeship: Introducing the Right to Petition

Prolongation of the Mandates System: The Ad Hoc Committees

Arrival of the First Ewe Petitions

The Council's Disposal of Petitions

Reactions By the Fourth Committee

Reactions By the Ewe and Togoland Unification Movement

Standing Committee: No Procedure for Petitions Raising General Issues

Struggle Over Oral Hearings: No Procedure for the General Assembly

5 A Colonial War Under UN Supervision?: The Trusteeship System and the Silenced War in Cameroon

Introduction: UN Trusteeship as Internationalized Rule

State of the Art: From UN Trusteeship to Neo-Trusteeship

Conceptualization: (In)Security and Postcolonial Positionality - Whose Threats?

Empirical Illustration: Internationalization of Political Domination?

Background: The Trusteeship System in Cameroon

Internalist Perspective: The Conflict Between France and UPC

Externalist Perspective: Amplifying Dynamics in the Trusteeship Council

Conclusion: A Colonial War Under UN Supervision?

6 Colonial Legacies of Decolonization: The Trust Territory of Somaliland and Italian Behavior Toward the Horn of Africa

The Colonization of Somalia: Two Models of Colonial Rule

Italian Colonization of Somalia

The Emergence of the British Protectorate

The Establishment of the UN Trusteeship

From Paris Peace Treaties to the Birth of AFIS

The Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana Della Somalia's Impact On Somali Society

The Post-Independence Decline of Somalia

Trusteeship Or Colonialism?

Conclusion: The Legacy of Colonialism in Somalia

7 Nuclear Testing On the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: How the US Became an Imperial Power in the Region of Micronesia

Introduction.

The Trusteeship System and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Negotiating the Trusteeship Agreement

Nuclear Testing in the Pacific and Displacement of Peoples

Castle Bravo: A Nuclear Tragedy

The Compact of Free Association

8 "Now the UN Has Its First Colony": Technical Assistance and Informal Trusteeship During the UN Peacekeeping Mission in ...

Tracing Colonial Legacies in the ONUC Mission

Building an International Community in the Field

Weaponizing Congolese Infrastructure

9 Breaking With the Past?: Neo-Trusteeship in the 21st Century

From Trusteeship to Neo-Trusteeship

Neo-Trusteeship: Kosovo and East Timor

Starting Point: Differences and Similarities of Trusteeship and Neo-Trusteeship Administrations

The Lack of Accountability in Neo-Trusteeship

The Legacies of Dependency in Neo-Trusteeship

East Timor

Kosovo

10 Trusteeship as Affective Arrangement: Exploring Affective Practices of an International Bureaucracy

Trusteeship as an International Administration

The Affective Dimension of Bureaucratic Rule

Affective Practices and Arrangements

Petitions as Affective Documents

Becoming the Eyes, Ears, and Bodies of the United Nations

Conclusion: Affects of Governing and Governing of Affects

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003185260

1003185266

9781000781625

1000781623

9781000781595

1000781593

OCLC:

1345581516