Soldiers of Diplomacy: The United Nations, Peacekeeping, and the New World Order

✍ Scribed by Jocelyn Coulon; Phyllis Aronoff; Howard Scott

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A unique, thought-provoking investigation based on visits to nine recent peacekeeping missions and interviews with dozens of soldiers, officers, and peacekeeping officials.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Rebirth of the United Nations
1. In the Glass Tower
2. A Nobel Prize for Canada
Part Two: The Peacekeeping Missions
3. The Soldier-Diplomat
4. Cambodia: The Fairies around the Cradle
5. Sabotage and Betrayal in Western Sahara
6. The New Warriors
7. Murder in Somalia
8. The Unhappy Warriors
9. Obstruction by the Great Powers
Part Three: An Army for the UN
10. Peacekeeping Takes a Back Seat to Politics
11. A Huge Lego Set
12. Pressure from the French
Epilogue
Appendix A: United Nations Peacekeeping Missions to 1 September 1994
Appendix B: Excerpts from the Charter of the United Nations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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