World Order and Local Disorder: The United Nations and Internal Conflicts

✍ Scribed by Linda B. Miller

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Center for International Studies, Princeton University; 2080
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book considers the varied roles played by the United Nations in cases where threats to peace are created by civil strife in modernizing societies. These struggles for internal supremacy are viewed by the superpowers and other states as parts of larger racial, anti-colonial, or ideological contests. Through a careful analysis of selected cases-Algeria, Angola, the Congo, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Lebanon, Laos, Yemen, and Vietnam-the author clarifies the legal and political factors limiting the United Nations' effectiveness in containing violence and promoting peaceful change.

Originally published in 1967.

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. The Nature of Internal Conflicts and the Bases of International Concern
The Dimensions of Internal Violence and the Policies of Third Parties
The Development of a United Nations Interest in Intrastate Conflict
Conclusion
II. The United Nations Role in Colonial Wars
Indonesia
Algeria
Angola
Conclusion
III. The United Nations Role in Internal Conflicts Involving a Breakdown of Law and Order
The Congo
Cyprus
The Dominican Republic
Conclusion
IV. The United Nations Role in Proxy Wars and Internal Conflicts Involving Charges of External Aggression or Subversion
Greece
Guatemala
Hungary
Lebanon
Yemen
Indochina
Conclusion
V. World Order and Local Disorder: Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliography
Index