The United Nations, peace and security : from collective security to the responsibility to protect /
Ending humanitarian atrocities has become as important for the United Nations as preventing interstate war. This book examines the transformation of UN operations, analyzing its changing role and structure. Ramesh Thakur asks why, when and how force may be used, and argues that the growing gulf betw...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. An international organisation for keeping the peace. 1. Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping; 2. Peace operations and the UN-US relationship
- Part II. Soft security perspectives. 3. Human security and human rights; 4. International criminal justice; 5. International sanctions
- Part III. Hard security issues. 6. The nuclear threat; 7. International terrorism; 8. Kosovo 1999 and Iraq 2003 as unilateral interventions; 9. Afghanistan, Libya and Syria: UN-authorised interventions and non-intervention; 10. From humanitarian intervention to R2P: cosmetic or consequential?; 11. The development and evolution of R2P as international policy
- Part IV. Institutional developments. 12. Reforming the United Nations; 13. The political role of the United Nations Secretary-General
- Conclusion: at the crossroads of ideals and reality.