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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813957303321

Autore

MacQueen Norrie <1950-, >

Titolo

United Nations peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 / / Norrie Macqueen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-87733-0

1-138-14447-9

1-315-83859-1

1-317-87734-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

The Postwar World

Disciplina

355.3/57/096

355.357096

Soggetti

Peacekeeping forces - History

International organization - History

Africa History 1960-

Africa Politics and government 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; CONTENTS; Maps; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; 1. The Setting: The History, Politics and Law of United Nations Engagement with Africa; The elusive concept of 'peacekeeping'; The external state: Africa and the international system; The internal state: post-colonial trajectories in Africa; System and state in collision: order in African international relations; A typology of UN peacekeeping in Africa; 2. Patrolling the Ethnic Frontier: Central Africa; Beginnings: the Congo, 1960-64; Spectators to genocide: Rwanda, 1993-96

Back to the Congo, 1999-Taking over: the Central African Republic, 1998-2000; 3. Managing Delayed Decolonization: Southern Africa; Linked withdrawal: Namibia and Angola, 1988-91; Failure in Angola, 1991-99; Success in Mozambique, 1992-94; 4. Controlling the Warlords: West Africa; Supervision and legitimization: Liberia, 1993-97; The slippery slope: Sierra Leone, 1998-; 5. Reconstructing and Defining the Post-Cold War State: The Horn of Africa; Making bad worse? Somalia, 1992-95; Textbook peacekeeping? Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2000-



; 6. Making Borders: Trans-Saharan Africa

Supervising intransigence: Western Sahara, 1991-A perfect miniature: Chad, 1994; 7. Conclusions: 'Firing into a Continent' - or Making a Difference?; Appendix I: Chronology; Appendix II: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Africa; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping and of Africa's post-independence politics and international relations. The peacekeeping project in Africa is then described on a region by region basis - Central Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Horn and Trans-Saharan Africa - with comparisons and contrasts within and between each part of