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Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations /

Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary worldMacQueen assesses armed humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asi...

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Autor principal: MacQueen, Norrie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
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Sumario:Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary worldMacQueen assesses armed humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Using empirical evidence, he compiles a 'balance sheet' of the UN's successes and failures and asks hard questions about humanitarian intervention's short and long-term value.Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesCase study chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and East TimorConfronts hard questions about the short and long-term value of these interventions
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 p.) : 9 Maps
ISBN:9780748636983
9783110780468
Acceso:restricted access