United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era

ISBN-13: 9780714684895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str.

John Terence O'Neill; Nicholas Rees

Opis

This book seeks to examine whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. The author concludes that most operations - whether in the Cold War or post-Cold War periods - were flawed for the following reasons: the failure of the UN member states to agree upon clear achievable objectives; the precise nature of the operations and provision of the necessary resources; and unrealistic post-1989 expectations that UN peacekeeping operations could be adapted to the changed international circumstances.

Recenzje

'John Terence O'Neill and co-author Nicholas Reese put forward no-nonsense recommendations'  - Politique Internationale

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Peacekeeping in the Cold War / Post-Cold War 3. ONUC and the Congo, 1960-1964 4. UNFICYP and Cyprus, 1964- 5. UNOSOM and Somalia, 1992-1995 6. UNAVEM and Angola, 1988-1997 7. UN Peacekeeping: Lessons Learnt? 8. The Future of UN Peacekeeping

O autorze

John Terence O'Neill is a former Colonel in the Irish Defence Forces, who has served on UN missions in the Congo (1961), Lebanon (1982-83) and Angola (1993), and recently completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Nicholas Rees is Dean of Graduate Studies and Jean Monnet Professor of European Institutions and International Relations at the University of Limerick. He is the co-author of Ireland's Poor Relations: Irish Foreign Policy Towards the Third World.