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(DE-602)almafu_9961152617202883
Format:
1 online resource (449 p.)
Edition:
7th ed.
ISBN:
0-8133-4848-X
Content:
〈div〉 A comprehensive and contemporary examination of the United Nations, using a thematic approach to explore the UN's role in three core issues in international relations: international peace and security; human rights and humanitarian affairs; and building peace through sustainable development. 〈/div〉
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents; Tables and Illustrations; Preface; Foreword to the Seventh Edition, Michael W. Doyle; Acronyms; Introduction ; The Legal Foundations of Sovereignty; State Sovereignty; Changing Raisons D'Etat; The United Nations: Actor or Institutional Framework? ; UN Politics; Notes; PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY ; 1. The Theory of UN Collective Security ; Collective Security ; The United Nations and Security: Some Basics; Regional Arrangements; Straying from the Ideal ; Notes; 2. UN Security Efforts During the Cold War ; The Early Years: Palestine, Koreo, Suez, the Congo
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Understanding Peacekeeping ""Chapter Six and a Half"" on Hold, 1978-1988; Economic Sanctions; Notes; 3. UN Security Operations After the Cold War, 1988-1998; The First UN Military Operations After the End of the Cold War, 1988-1993; The Rebirth of Peacekeeping ; Moving Toward the Next Generation ; Moving Toward Enforcement ; Nonforcible Sanctions in the Post-Cold War Era: Humanitarian Dilemmas; Operational Quandaries: Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti; Conclusion ; Notes
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4. Evolving Security Operations: Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Libya, and SyriaUsing Military Force for Human Protection Purposes; Implications for the UN's Security Efforts; The Crisis in the Balkans ; Turmoil in Timor-Leste (East Timor) ; Reestablishing Stability in Sierra Leone ; Lebanon - Again ; Darfur, Sudan ; Cote D'Ivoire; Libya ; Syria ; Conclusion: Whither the Responsibility to Protect? ; Nots; 5. The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century ; After September 11, What's New? ; Political Challenges; The Challenges of Reform ; The 2005 World Summit
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Strengthening the SecretariatStrengthening the Role of Women ; Explaining Change ; Notes; PART TWO: HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS; 6. The United Nations, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs; The Theory ; Understanding Rights; Basic Norms in the UN Era ; Core Norms Beyond the Charter ; Supplementing the Core; Notes; 7. The United Nations and Applying Human Rights Standards; Security Council ; General Assembly ; International Criminal Court ; Office of the Secretary-General ; High Commissioner for Human Rights; Commission on Human Rights, 1946-2006; Human Rights Council, 2006-Present
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Supplemental Human Rights BodiesHuman Rights and Development ; Emergency Assistance ; Notes; 8. Change, the United Nations, and Human Rights ; More on Raisons D'Etat; State Coalitions ; Nonstate Actors; Theories of Change; Notes; PART THREE: SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ; 9. Theories of Development at the United Nations ; The Politics of Changing Theories; Notes; 10. Sustainable Development as Process: UN Organizations and Norms ; Understanding the Organizational Chart: Coordination, Again ; Particular Contributions to Sustainable Development ; The World Bank, IMF, and WTO
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Norm Creation and Coherence: a History of Ideas
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8133-4847-1
Language:
English
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