Preventive diplomacy at the UN / Bertrand G. Ramcharan ; foreword by Leon Gordenker.

• Superior document: United Nations intellectual history project (Series) ; 10
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Ramcharan, B. G.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gordenker, Leon, 1923-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: United Nations intellectual history project (Series) ; 10.
• Physical Description: xxvii, 266 p.

Table of Contents

Series editors' foreword / by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss -- Foreword / by Leon Gordenker -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Secretaries-General on preventive diplomacy -- Introduction -- Preventive diplomacy in the concert of Europe, the Hague Peace Conferences, the League of Nations, and the UN Charter -- UN policies and doctrines of preventive diplomacy -- The practice of preventive diplomacy by the Security Council -- The practice of preventive diplomacy by the Secretaries-General -- Preventive diplomacy during the Cuban missile crisis -- The practice of preventive diplomacy by representatives of the Secretary-General and UN subregional offices -- The preventive role of UN peacekeepers and observers -- Preventive diplomacy in the economic, social, human rights, and humanitarian fields -- Preventive diplomacy in an age of genocide, terrorism, and nontraditional threats to security -- Cooperative preventive diplomacy with regional and subregional organizations -- Conclusion: some thoughts for the future -- Notes -- Index.