The United Nations, Peace Operations and the Cold War

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ISBN: 9781408237663 | 1408237660
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Each book in the Seminar Studies in History series provides a concise and reliable introduction to complex events and debates. Written by acknowledged experts and supported by extracts from historical Documents, a Chronology, Glossary, Who's Who of key figures and Guide to Further Reading, Seminar Studies in History are the essential guides to understanding a topic.

Preface to the second edition	p. xiii
Publisher's acknowledgements	p. xvi
Chronology	p. xvii
UN operations established 1948-1995	p. xxvi
Who's who	p. xxxiii
Glossary	p. xi
Map	p. xiviii
Background	p. 1
The'Failure of The League Of Nations And the Beginnings Of The Un	p. 3
A New World Order?	p. 3
Managing Post-war Adjustment	p. 4
The Breakdown of the Collective Idea	p. 5
The War-time Origins of the UN	p. 7
Analysis	p. 15
The United Nations And The dilemas Of Collective Security	p. 17
International Security and the UN Charter	p. 17
The Onset of the Cold War and the End of the Illusion Korea	p. 12
The (Re)discovery Of The Peackering	p. 28
Truce Supervision in Palestine	p. 29
Military Observation in'Kashmir	p. 30
The UN's First Peacekeeping Force Suez	p. 32
Cold War Peacekeeping Conceptualised	p. 40
Hammarskjold's Summary Study and the 'Rules' of Peacekeeping	p. 41
Arab Nationalism and the International System: Lebanon and Yemen	p. 45
The Peacekeeping Model Challenged: From The Congo To Cyprus	p. 50
Post-colonial Test: The Congo Morass	p. 50
The UN in West New Guinea: Peace without Honour?	p. 61
Peacekeeping within the Cold War Family: Cyprus	p. 65
The Legality of Peace Operations: The Article 19 Crisis	p. 69
Superpower Detente And Peace Operationsin The Middle East	p. 73
Israel, Egypt, Syria and the 1973 war	p. 74
Lebanon in die Twilight of Detente	p. 80
The 'Second' Cold War: Peace Suspended?	p. 86
Non-UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East	p. 86
Peace Operations Resume: The Namibia-Angola Arrangement	p. 89
The End Of The Cold War	p. 92
Opportunity and Demand: The New Post-Cold War World	p. 92
Collective Security at Last? Operation Desert Storm	p. 99
Boutros-Ghalis Agenda for Peace	p. 102
Assessment	p. 105
Peace Operations And The Cold War:.A Balance Sheet	p. 107
Peace Operations and the Status of the United Nations	p. 107
Peace Operations and Regional Stability	p. 109
Peace Operations and the State	p. 110
	p. 115
The League of Nations international force in the Saar Territory	p. 116
Collective security and the League of Nations	p. 117
The Atlantic Charter: war-time pointers to a new security organisation	p. 118
International security and the United Nations Charter	p. 119
The Soviet Union and the veto	p. 123
The Unified Command in Korea	p. 124
The 'Uniting for Peace' resolution	p. 124
Inter-war precursors of UN peace operations	p. 125
The Truce Supervision Organization and the assassination of Count Bernadotte	p. 126
Lester Pearson and the United Nations Emergency Force	p. 128
The withdrawal of UNEF from Egypc, 1967	p. 129
Hammarskjold's 'Summary Study' - Peacekeeping conceptualised	p. 130
Three Security Council resolutions on the Congo	p. 132
Exchange of letters between Congo prime minister Patrice Lumumba and UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold on the purpose of the UN operation in the Congo	p. 134
Khrushchev and the'troika'proposal	p. 135
The Congo - Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Katanga question	p. 137
Hammarskjold and the Congo - The pressures of office	p. 138
Forming the Cyprus Force	p. 139
The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion-on the financing of peacekeeping	p. 141
Detente and the 1973 Middle East war - The US perspective	p. 142
Detente and the 1973 Middle East war- The Soviet perspective	p. 143
Kurt Waldheim on the Lebanon force	p. 144
Boutros Boutros-Ghali oh the end of me Somalia operation	p. 145
Operation Desert Storm	p. 146
An Agenda for Preface	p. 146
Further Reading	p. 149
References	p. 153
Index	p. 158
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