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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451759003321

Autore

Debrix François

Titolo

Re-envisioning peacekeeping [[electronic resource] ] : the United Nations and the mobilization of ideology / / François Debrix

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-8970-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Borderlines ; ; v. 13

Disciplina

341.5/84

341.584

Soggetti

Peacekeeping forces

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Re-Envisioning the United Nations; 1. Destabilizing Leviathan: Revisiting the Order/ Anarchy Debate through a Postmodern(ized) Hobbes; 2. Space Quest: The UN and the Politics of Panoptic Surveillance; 3. From a Hopeless Situation to Operation Restore Hope, and Beyond: Suture, Ideology, and Simulation in Somalia; 4. Visions of Otherness and Interventionism in Bosnia, or How the West Was Won Again; 5. A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Medical Assistance and Humanitarianism as Substitutes for UN Peacekeeping

6. Theorizing the Visual: New Critical HorizonsAppendix: Chronology of the Rwandan Crisis; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Time and again the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping missions in trouble spots around the globe: Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda. Has peace ensued? Have these missions, in fact, made any difference in the disorder and destruction they are purported to forestall? Or are they, as François Debrix contends in this critical revisiting of UN interventions, an illusion-more virtual peacekeeping than actual interventions in international affairs?