{"product_id":"selective-responsibility-in-the-united-nations-colonial-histories-and-critical-inquiry-9781786610287","title":"Selective Responsibility in the United Nations:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United Nations claims to exist in order to maintain international peace and security, providing a space within which all states can work together. But why, then, does the UN invoke its responsibility to protect through humanitarian intervention in some instances but not others? Why is it that five states have the power to decide whether or not to intervene? This book challenges the dominant narrative of the UN as an institution of equality and progress by analyzing the colonial origins of the organization and revealing the unequal power relations it has perpetuated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarsant argues that the United Nations is unable to fulfill its claims around the protection of international peace and security due to its very structure and the privilege of certain states. Moreover, through a rigorous examination of the history of the UN and how those structures came to be, she argues that the privilege afforded to these states is the result of power relations established through the colonial encounter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to understand the pressing contemporary issues of how the United Nations operates, particularly the Security Council, this book discusses issues of power and sovereignty by de-silencing the narratives of resistance and reconstructing a history of the United Nations that takes this colonial and anti-colonial relationship into account. This is a bold challenge to the eurocentrism that dominates International Relations discourse and a call to better understand the colonialism’s role in preserving the existing global order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelective Responsibility in the United Nations provides a thoughtful critique of the Responsibility to Protect by reconsidering the history of the UN and the League in the context of the global struggle against colonialism. It is essential reading for students of global governance today.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College; former president of the International Studies Association; former chair of the Academic Council on the UN System\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Selective Responsibility and Reading Through History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostcolonialism, Neocolonialism and Sovereignty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading Through History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructure of the Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 - From Sovereignty to Sovereign Equality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA History of the United Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcademic Narratives of the United Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSovereignty and International Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSovereignty and the League of Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Sovereignty to Sovereign Equality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSovereign Equality and Trusteeship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Colonial History of the United Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 - Resistance to Imperialism and the Two Leagues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe League of Nations, Self-Determination and the Mandate System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe League Against Imperialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversalism and Internationalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 - The United Nations and Colonialism: Re-Narrating San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Colonial Question at San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnti-Colonialism at San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePermanent Membership and Postcolonial Privilege\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower vs. Responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSacrificing Sovereignty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Mandates to Trusteeship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 - The Rise of Asia-Africa and Discourses of Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscourses of Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bandung Conference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBandung and the Cold War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Power of Bandung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 - After Bandung: Independence and Non-Alignment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United Nations, Decolonisation and Independence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Non-Aligned Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Group of 77\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBandung and the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Bandung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 - From Non-Intervention to R2P\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNon-Intervention After the Second World War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower Politics in the Cold War Period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman Rights and Humanitarianism in the 1990s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eICISS and the Focus on Responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeocolonialism and Selective Responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelective Responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational Relations, History and Eurocentrism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United Nations in 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042469839191,"sku":"9781786610287","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786610287.jpg?v=1750954278","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selective-responsibility-in-the-united-nations-colonial-histories-and-critical-inquiry-9781786610287","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}