A wholly comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early/mid-20th century. This is essential reading for all undergraduates on politics, international relations and contemporary history programs, it will also be a significant resource for taught postgraduate courses in these subject areas. The narrative is primarily chronological, but key themes such as legality and "collective security" are traced throughout. The chronology is based on the key periods in the development of peacekeeping, marking stages in the...
A wholly comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early/mid-20th century. <...
A comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century.
This is essential reading for all undergraduates on politics, international relations and contemporary history programmes. It is also an excellent resource for taught postgraduate courses in these subject areas.
The narrative is primarily chronological; key themes such as legality and 'collective security' are traced throughout. The chronology is based on the key periods in the development of peacekeeping, marking stages in the evolution...
A comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century.
This comprehensive analysis of all UN peacekeeping in Africa combines broad theoretical ideas with careful historical narrative. The book explores the entirety of United Nations military intervention in Africa since its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.
This comprehensive analysis of all UN peacekeeping in Africa combines broad theoretical ideas with careful historical narrative. The book explores the...
European Security after Iraq examines the impact of the'second' Gulf War on European politics. It explores key questions about the impact of the conflict on national, European and transatlantic politics such as the extent to which the war has created new cleavages between the foreign and security policies of European states or merely confirmed existing ones. Its national focus is on states on both the so-called 'old' and 'new' Europe (a classification the book, in fact, calls into question). Important issues around the instiutional architecture of European security before and after the...
European Security after Iraq examines the impact of the'second' Gulf War on European politics. It explores key questions about the impact of th...
A lively, accessible look at how the colonial policies and practices of a few European countries in the 19th century have had such a profound impact on the 21st.
A compact accessible guide to the intricacies of colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries and its impact on the future.
Provides a fresh interpretation of controversial events.
engages with an open mind the argument that colonialism accelerated modernization and development.
Includes an interesting discussion of the relationship between today's "humanitarian intervention" as apposed...
A lively, accessible look at how the colonial policies and practices of a few European countries in the 19th century have had such a profound impac...
The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. Since the late 1940s, but particularly since the end of the cold war, peacekeeping has been a central part of the core activities of the United Nations and a major process in global security governance and the management of international relations in general. The volume will present a chronological analysis, designed to provide a comprehensive perspective that highlights the evolution of UN...
The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique ...
Europe s rapacious hunger for other people s lands is one of the key shaping forces of our contemporary world. Everything is touched by our colonial past, from the way we see the world to the food we eat. Our contemporary preoccupations and ills from globalization to humanitarian intervention to international terrorism have colonialism somewhere in their genetic make-up.
The character and policies of contemporary international organizations from the United Nations to the European Union - have also been deeply affected by the colonial inheritance of their members, whether as...
Europe s rapacious hunger for other people s lands is one of the key shaping forces of our contemporary world. Everything is touched by our colonia...
