The United Nations, Peace Operations and the Cold War (Seminar Studies)

✍ Scribed by Norrie MacQueen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first introduction to the United Nation's activities during the Cold War period. It combines a history of the UN with a broader account of east-west diplomacy during the Cold War and after. Norrie MacQueen begins by looking at the formation, structure and functions of the UN. Then, within a chronological framework, he assesses its contribution to international security from the emergence of the UN's peacekeeping role in 1945-56 right through to UN operations in the 1990s in Angola, Somalia and Bosnia.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface to the second edition
Publisher's acknowledgements
Chronology
UN operations established 1948–1995
Who's who
Glossary
Map
PART ONE BACKGROUND
1 THE 'FAILURE' OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE UN
A New World Order?
Managing Post-war Adjustment
The Breakdown of the Collective Idea
The War-time Origins of the UN
PART TWO ANALYSIS
2 THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE DILEMMAS OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
International Security and the UN Charter
The Onset of the Cold War and the End of the Illusion: Korea
3 THE (RE)DISCOVERY OF PEACEKEEPING
Truce Supervision in Palestine
Military Observation in Kashmir
The UN's First Peacekeeping 'Force': Suez
4 COLD WAR PEACEKEEPING CONCEPTUALISED
Hammarskjöld's Summary Study and the 'Rules' of Peacekeeping
Arab Nationalism and the International System: Lebanon and Yemen
5 THE PEACEKEEPING MODEL CHALLENGED: FROM THE CONGO TO CYPRUS
Post-colonial Test: The Congo Morass
The UN in West New Guinea: Peace without Honour?
Peacekeeping within the Cold War Family: Cyprus
The Legality of Peace Operations: The Article 19 Crisis
6 SUPERPOWER DÉTENTE AND PEACE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel, Egypt, Syria and the 1973 war
Lebanon in the Twilight of Détente
7 THE 'SECOND' COLD WAR: PEACE SUSPENDED?
Non-UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East
Peace Operations Resume: The Namibia–Angola Arrangement
8 THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Opportunity and Demand: The New Post-Cold War World
Collective Security at Last? Operation Desert Storm
Boutros-Ghali's Agenda for Peace
PART THREE ASSESSMENT
9 PEACE OPERATIONS AND THE COLD WAR: A BALANCE SHEET
Peace Operations and the Status of the United Nations
Peace Operations and Regional Stability
Peace Operations and the State
PART FOUR DOCUMENTS
1 The League of Nations international force in the Saar Territory
2 Collective security and the League of Nations
3 The Atlantic Charter: war-time pointers to a new security organisation
4 International security and the United Nations Charter
5 The Soviet Union and the veto
6 The Unified Command in Korea
7 The 'Uniting for Peace' resolution
8 Inter-war precursors of UN peace operations
9 The Truce Supervision Organization and the assassination of Count Bernadotte
10 Lester Pearson and the United Nations Emergency Force
11 The withdrawal of UNEF from Egypt, 1967
12 Hammarskjöld's 'Summary Study' – Peacekeeping conceptualised
13 Three Security Council resolutions on the Congo
14 Exchange of letters between Congo prime minister Patrice Lumumba and UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld on the purpose of the UN operation in the Congo
15 Khrushchev and the 'troika' proposal
16 The Congo – Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Katanga question
17 Hammarskjöld and the Congo – The pressures of office
18 Forming the Cyprus Force
19 The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the financing of peacekeeping
20 Détente and the 1973 Middle East war – The US perspective
21 Détente and the 1973 Middle East war – The Soviet perspective
22 Kurt Waldheim on the Lebanon force
23 Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the end of the Somalia operation
24 Operation Desert Storm
25 An Agenda for Peace
FURTHER READING
REFERENCES
INDEX
Plates