United Nations, Peace and Security From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect

Name: United Nations, Peace and Security From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect
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ISBN: 9780521671255

ISBN-10: 0521671256

ISBN-13: 9780521671255

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ramesh Thakur

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Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the US, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Foreword Gareth Evans


Introduction



An International Organisation For Keeping the Peace



Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping



Peace operations and the UN-US relationship



Soft Security Perspectives



Human security



Human rights: civil society and the United Nations



International criminal justice



International sanctions



Hard Security Issues



The nuclear threat



International terrorism



Kosovo 1999



Iraq's challenge to world order



The responsibility to protect



Developing countries and the eroding nonintervention norm



Institutional Developments



Reforming the United Nations



The political role of the United Nations Secretary-General


Conclusion: At the crossroads of ideals and reality