Blue Helmets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Helmets write by John Hillen. This book was released on 2000. Blue Helmets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critically acclaimed book has been updated to include recent and possible future peacekeeping missions in East Timor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, and elsewhere. In an increasingly volatile world, Blue Helmets should be required reading for all students of international relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Blue Helmets and Black Markets
Blue Helmets and Black Markets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Helmets and Black Markets write by Peter Andreas. This book was released on 2011-08-15. Blue Helmets and Black Markets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the most visible face of post-Cold War conflict and humanitarian intervention. However, some critical activities took place backstage, away from the cameras, including extensive clandestine trading across the siege lines, theft and diversion of aid, and complicity in the black market by peacekeeping forces. In Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Peter Andreas traces the interaction between these formal front-stage and informal backstage activities, arguing that this created and sustained a criminalized war economy and prolonged the conflict in a manner that served various interests on all sides. Although the vast majority of Sarajevans struggled for daily survival and lived in a state of terror, the siege was highly rewarding for some key local and international players. This situation also left a powerful legacy for postwar reconstruction: new elites emerged via war profiteering and an illicit economy flourished partly based on the smuggling networks built up during wartime. Andreas shows how and why the internationalization of the siege changed the repertoires of siege-craft and siege defenses and altered the strategic calculations of both the besiegers and the besieged. The Sarajevo experience dramatically illustrates that just as changes in weapons technologies transformed siege warfare through the ages, so too has the arrival of CNN, NGOs, satellite phones, UN peacekeepers, and aid convoys. Drawing on interviews, reportage, diaries, memoirs, and other sources, Andreas documents the business of survival in wartime Sarajevo and the limits, contradictions, and unintended consequences of international intervention. Concluding with a comparison of the battle for Sarajevo with the sieges of Leningrad, Grozny, and Srebrenica, and, more recently, Falluja, Blue Helmets and Black Markets is a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary urban warfare, war economies, and the political repercussions of humanitarian action.
Land of Blue Helmets
Land of Blue Helmets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land of Blue Helmets write by Karim Makdisi. This book was released on 2017. Land of Blue Helmets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Born in 1945, the United Nations came to life in the Arab world. It was there that the UN dealt with early diplomatic challenges that helped shape its institutions such as peacekeeping and political mediation. It was also there that the UN found itself trapped in, and sometimes part of, confounding geopolitical tensions in key international conflicts in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods, such as hostilities between Palestine and Iraq and between Libya and Syria. Much has changed over the past seven decades, but what has not changed is the central role played by the UN. This book’s claim is that the UN is a constant site of struggle in the Arab world and equally that the Arab world serves as a location for the UN to define itself against the shifting politics of its age. Looking at the UN from the standpoint of the Arab world, this volume collects some of the finest scholars and practitioners writing about the potential and the problems of a UN that is framed by both the promises of its Charter and the contradictions of its member states. This is a landmark book—a close and informed study of the UN in the region that taught the organization how to do its many jobs.
The Blue Helmets
The Blue Helmets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blue Helmets write by United Nations. This book was released on 1990. The Blue Helmets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. UN publication sales no. E.90.I.18
The Women in Blue Helmets
The Women in Blue Helmets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Women in Blue Helmets write by Lesley J. Pruitt. This book was released on 2016-06-28. The Women in Blue Helmets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Women in Blue Helmets tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. Lesley J. Pruitt investigates how the unit was originated, developed, and implemented, offering an important historical record of this unique initiative. Examining precedents in policing in the troop-contributing country and recent developments in policing in the host country, the book offers contextually rich examination of all-female units, explores the potential benefits of and challenges to women’s participation in peacekeeping, and illuminates broader questions about the relationship between gender, peace, and security.
