Humanitarian intervention and the United Nations /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacQueen, Norrie, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Evolution: intervention and humanitarianism from collective security to peacekeeping
  • After the cold war: a new world order?
  • Sovereignty and community: a 'responsibility to protect'?
  • Africa: post-colonial intervention amidst fragile statehood
  • Humanitarian intervention and coercive action: the Balkans
  • A model intervention? The birth of Timor Leste
  • Is it worth it? Success and failure in UN intervention.

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