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United Nations peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 /

United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century. The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacQueen, Norrie, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Postwar world.
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; CONTENTS; Maps; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; 1. The Setting: The History, Politics and Law of United Nations Engagement with Africa; The elusive concept of 'peacekeeping'; The external state: Africa and the international system; The internal state: post-colonial trajectories in Africa; System and state in collision: order in African international relations; A typology of UN peacekeeping in Africa; 2. Patrolling the Ethnic Frontier: Central Africa; Beginnings: the Congo, 1960-64; Spectators to genocide: Rwanda, 1993-96.
  • Back to the Congo, 1999-Taking over: the Central African Republic, 1998-2000; 3. Managing Delayed Decolonization: Southern Africa; Linked withdrawal: Namibia and Angola, 1988-91; Failure in Angola, 1991-99; Success in Mozambique, 1992-94; 4. Controlling the Warlords: West Africa; Supervision and legitimization: Liberia, 1993-97; The slippery slope: Sierra Leone, 1998-; 5. Reconstructing and Defining the Post-Cold War State: The Horn of Africa; Making bad worse? Somalia, 1992-95; Textbook peacekeeping? Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2000-; 6. Making Borders: Trans-Saharan Africa.
  • Supervising intransigence: Western Sahara, 1991-A perfect miniature: Chad, 1994; 7. Conclusions: 'Firing into a Continent'
  • or Making a Difference?; Appendix I: Chronology; Appendix II: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Africa; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index.