A Un 'Legion': Between Utopia and Reality

ISBN-13: 9780415652957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str.

Stephen Kinloch Pichat

Opis

Investigating the changing role of peacekeeping, this work addresses issues connected with the transition from a Westphalian international society, the ethical and legal dilemmas provoked by armed intervention, and the alternative ways of conceptualizing the role that peacekeeping plays.

Spis treści

Foreword  Acknowledgements  Glossary  Introduction  1. Origins 2. First Steps  3. Revival  4. Metamorphoses  5. Re-emergence 6. Rationale  7. Why Not?  8. Epilogue Appendix: Tables and Figures Bibliography Index

O autorze

Stephen Kinloch Pichat is Strategic Planning Adviser at the United Nations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He defended his PhD thesis on the idea of an international permanent military volunteer force at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) in 2000. His experience of conflict and post-conflict settings, include Cambodia (1992-3), the former Yugoslavia (1993-4), Somalia and Rwanda (1994), Kosovo (1999), Angola (2001-3), and Afghanistan (2003-5).