Format:
1 online resource (323 pages)
ISBN:
9781317877349
Series Statement:
The Postwar World Ser.
Content:
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 and of Africa's post-independence politics and international relations. The peacekeeping project in Africa is then described on a region by region basis - Central Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Horn and Trans-Saharan Africa - with comparisons and contrasts within and between each part of Africa highlighted throughout. A number of key questions are considered: how have developments in the broader international system affected conflicts in Africa? what are the internal and external forces which have caused African states to 'fail' and 'collapse'? how have external powers 'used' UN Peacekeeping in pursuit of their own political agendas? what determines success and failure in African peacekeeping? are there African solutions to African problems which could supplant UN involvement? As well as providing an account of UN involvement, the book is concerned to explore the long historical origins of the African conflicts with which the UN has been engaged. Written in an engaging and accessible manner, United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an invaluable examination of the complex issues surrounding UN interventions in Africa.
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780582382534
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780582382534
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1757003
