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

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacQueen, Norrie, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
Temas:
United Nations > Peacekeeping forces.
Nations Unies > Forces de maintien de la paix.
United Nations
Humanitarian intervention.
Droit d'ingérence humanitaire.
LAW > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Humanitarian intervention
Peacekeeping forces
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 world MacQueen 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 issues Case study chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and East Timor Confronts hard questions about the short and long-term value of these interventions
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index.
ISBN:9780748636983
0748636986
9780748687893
0748687890
9781283133135
128313313X

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