International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict / / ed. by Milton J. Esman, Shibley Z. Telhami.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Burg, Steven L.,; Donnelly, Jack,; Esman, Milton J.,; Gagnon, V. P.,; Hopkins, Raymond F.,; Hudson, Michael C.,; Khalaf, Samir,; Preisler, Barry,; Telhami, Shibley,; Weinberger, Naomi,; Woodward, Susan L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Esman, Milton J.,; Telhami, Shibley Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

From Rwanda to Somalia to the former Yugoslavia, one feature of the post-Cold War world has become dreadfully clear. Ethnic conflicts are escalating, and with them demands for international intervention. But legally most ethnic conflicts are "internal" matters. How are international organi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• A Note to the Reader
• Introduction
• PART I. The Role of International Organizations in the Post-Cold-War Era
• 1. A Survey of Interventions
• 2. The Past, the Present, and the Future Prospects
• 3. Anomie, System Reform, and Challenges to the UN System
• PART II. The Case of Lebanon
• 4. The Case of Nineteenth- Century Lebanon
• 5. The Domestic Context and Perspectives in Lebanon
• 6. How Peace Keeping Becomes Intervention: Lessons from the Lebanese Experience
• PART III. The Case of Yugoslavia
• 7. Historical Roots of the Yugoslav Conflict
• 8. Redrawing Borders in a Period of Systemic Transition
• 9. The International Community and the Yugoslav Crisis
• PART IV. Conclusion
• 10. An Outline of a Comparison Between Yugoslavia and Lebanon
• 11. Changing Roles
• References
• Contributors
• Index