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MacQueen's comprehensive analysis of UN military operations with humanitarian dimensions makes the case why the United Nations is the worst possible option for intervention, apart from all the others. A rare combination of rigorous history, in-depth analysis, and engaging prose. -- Prof. Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center MacQueen's comprehensive analysis of UN military operations with humanitarian dimensions makes the case why the United Nations is the worst possible option for intervention, apart from all the others. A rare combination of rigorous history, in-depth analysis, and engaging prose.

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United Nations Military Interventions since 1948; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1. Evolution: Intervention and Humanitarianism from Collective Security to Peacekeeping; 2:.After the Cold War: a New World Order?; 3. Sovereignty and Community: a "Responsibility to Protect"?; 4. Africa: Post-Colonial Intervention amidst Fragile Statehood; 5. Humanitarian Intervention and Coercive Action: the Balkans; 6. A Model Intervention? The Birth of Timor Leste; 7. Is it Worth it? Success and Failure in UN Intervention; Notes and References; Suggested Further Reading.

Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 24 March 2011
      ISBN-13 9780748636976
      978-0748636976
      ISBN-10 0748636978
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      Book Synopsis


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      MacQueen's comprehensive analysis of UN military operations with humanitarian dimensions makes the case why the United Nations is the worst possible option for intervention, apart from all the others. A rare combination of rigorous history, in-depth analysis, and engaging prose. -- Prof. Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center MacQueen's comprehensive analysis of UN military operations with humanitarian dimensions makes the case why the United Nations is the worst possible option for intervention, apart from all the others. A rare combination of rigorous history, in-depth analysis, and engaging prose.

      Table of Contents
      United Nations Military Interventions since 1948; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1. Evolution: Intervention and Humanitarianism from Collective Security to Peacekeeping; 2:.After the Cold War: a New World Order?; 3. Sovereignty and Community: a "Responsibility to Protect"?; 4. Africa: Post-Colonial Intervention amidst Fragile Statehood; 5. Humanitarian Intervention and Coercive Action: the Balkans; 6. A Model Intervention? The Birth of Timor Leste; 7. Is it Worth it? Success and Failure in UN Intervention; Notes and References; Suggested Further Reading.

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