Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations MacQueen Norrie Paperback
Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations MacQueen Norrie Paperback Does humanitarian intervention 'work'? Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a chance'?Since the end of…
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Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations MacQueen Norrie Paperback
Does humanitarian intervention 'work'? Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a chance'?Since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent surge in civil and international conflicts, the UN has been faced by an ever-increasing set of demands on its military capacity. Could it work better if approached differently?
This book traces the evolution of its armed humanitarian intervention from the grand ambitions for forceful collective security through the 'brushfire' peacekeeping of the cold war years to its engagement with the present globalised yet fractured world order.Key FeaturesPresents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issuesExplores the general setting of contemporary humanitarian interventionAssesses the actual record of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa and Southeast