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.
Blue Helmets
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 1998. Blue Helmets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations is the first book to comprehensively address the performance of the United Nations over the past fifty years as an employer of military force and to examine the organization's ability to handle military operations. Analyzing thirty-eight UN military operations conducted worldwide since 1948, international security expert John Hillen answers important questions about the UN's competency to handle complex future operations.
Blue Helmets in the Land of Apsaras
Blue Helmets in the Land of Apsaras - 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 in the Land of Apsaras write by Mariza Artificio-Rogers. This book was released on 1993. Blue Helmets in the Land of Apsaras available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
Why Peacekeeping Fails
Why Peacekeeping Fails - 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 Why Peacekeeping Fails write by D. Jett. This book was released on 2000-03-01. Why Peacekeeping Fails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dennis C. Jett examines why peacekeeping operations fail by comparing the unsuccessful attempt at peacekeeping in Angola with the successful effort in Mozambique, alongside a wide range of other peacekeeping experiences. The book argues that while the causes of past peacekeeping failures can be identified, the chances for success will be difficult to improve because of the way such operations are initiated and conducted, and the way the United Nations operates as an organization. Jett reviews the history of peacekeeping and the evolution in the number, size, scope, and cost of peacekeeping missions. He also explains why peacekeeping has become more necessary, possible, and desired and yet, at the same time, more complex, more difficult, and less frequently used. The book takes a hard look at the UN's actions and provides useful information for understanding current conflicts.
