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Autore: | MacQueen Norrie <1950-, > |
Titolo: | United Nations peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 / / Norrie Macqueen |
Pubblicazione: | Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355.3/57/096 |
Soggetto topico: | Peacekeeping forces - History |
International organization - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa History 1960- |
Africa Politics and government 1960- | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | United Nations peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 |
ISBN: | 1-317-87733-0 |
1-138-14447-9 | |
1-315-83859-1 | |
1-317-87734-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910786778303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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