Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations / / Norrie MacQueen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: MacQueen, Norrie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 9 Maps

Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary worldMacQueen assesses armed humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Using empirical evidence, he compiles a 'balance sheet' of the UN's successes and failures and asks hard questions about humanitarian intervention's short and long-term value.Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesCase study chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and East TimorConfronts hard questions about the short and long-term value of these interventions

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- United Nations military interventions since 1948 -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Preliminaries -- Chapter 1 Evolution: intervention and humanitarianism from collective security to peacekeeping -- Chapter 2 After the cold war: a new world order? -- Chapter 3 Sovereignty and community: a ‘responsibility to protect’? -- Chapter 4 Africa: post-colonial intervention amidst fragile statehood -- Chapter 5 Humanitarian intervention and coercive action: the Balkans -- Chapter 6 A model intervention? The birth of Timor Leste -- Chapter 7 Is it worth it? Success and failure in UN intervention -- Further reading -- Index