For more than seven decades, UN peacekeeping operations have fulfilled an essential role in managing international crises. Alan Doss has spent a decade at the highest levels of UN peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and the Democratic…
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Although the 1995 Cenepa war between Ecuador and Peru was the first military conflict in South America in more than five decades, the Ecuador-Peru relationship might be characterized as one of enduring rivalry—punctuated by the threat of armed combat.In the context of this history of recurrent crises, Herz and Nogueira analyze the mediation process that […]
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The UN intervention in East Timor amply illustrates the type of complex operation that the United Nations increasingly is being asked to undertake.Michael Smith analyzes the successes and failures of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which was designed to work in partnership with the East Timorese in guiding the country to independence […]
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Following on the publication of The Sanctions Decade – lauded as the definitive history and accounting of UN sanctions in the 1990s – David Cortright and George Lopez continue their collaboration to examine the changing context and meaning of sanctions and of the kinds of dilemmas that the Security Council now faces.Cortright and Lopez note […]
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Prevention of conflict is the first promise in the UN Charter, and yet, local parties, governments, and international organizations constantly betray it.Preventive action is at the center of international health policy and action, is vital to environmental improvements globally, and is accepted in many human rights treaties and in efforts to reduce the number and […]
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This study tackles contemporary issues that are of utmost significance to building peace in West Africa.For more information about this book, click here.
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