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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 p.) : 9 Maps |
ISBN: | 9780748636983 9783110780468 |
Acceso: | restricted access |