Eurona Leka

The role of Albania within UN Peacekeeping Operations

Albania: 1997 from a country in a crises, today into a country contributing in crises solutions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role of Albania in UN peacekeeping operations and will provide a whole picture related to the transformation of Albania, and of its repercussion within the framework of peacekeeping operations as well. The research perspective concerns the change from a country in transition hosting a number of peacekeeping missions during the civil unrest in 1997, into one of the countries which is sending nowadays its military contingents in the conflict areas, such as Bosnia Herzegovina, Afghanistan and Iraq. The paper will start with a short analysis of why there was a need to create these missions under the UN mandate. The analysis will follow with a particular focus on Albania as a recipient and sending country involved in peacekeeping operations. The effectiveness of the Albanian military contingents will be evaluated and the policy-making level, taking into consideration their peculiar role in fulfilling their mission s mandate in the field as well. The whole structure will be based on the detailed reference to and analysis of Albanian national law which allows the country to undertake such international commitments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9783659212178
• ISBN-10: 3659212172
• Artikelnr.: 36325500

Autorenporträt

Eurona Leka holds a MA degree in Peacekeeping Management from Turin University and actually she is a PhD Candidate in International Order and Human Rights, ¿La Sapienzä University. She is lecturer of political sciences at Marin Barleti University, in Tirana and focuses her research in the areas of international affairs and political studies.