Ramesh Thakur (Canberra Australian National University)

The United Nations, Peace and Security

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by an eminent scholar and former UN Assistant Secretary-General, this book describes the transformations in United Nations policies from collective security in 1945 to the Responsibility to Protect in 2015, and explains the importance of embedding protection against humanitarian atrocities in the UN-centred international rule of law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781316627723
• ISBN-10: 1316627721
• Artikelnr.: 45163484

Autorenporträt

Professor Ramesh Thakur is Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His recent publications include Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (2010), Blood and Borders: The Responsibility to Protect and the Problem of the Kin-State (2011) and The Responsibility to Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics (2011). He has also published in many journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping
2. Peace operations and the UN-US relationship
3. Human security and human rights
4. International criminal justice
5. International sanctions
6. The nuclear threat
7. International terrorism
8. Kosovo 1999 and Iraq 2003 as unilateral interventions
9. Afghanistan, Libya and Syria: UN-authorised interventions and non-intervention
10. From humanitarian intervention to R2P: cosmetic or consequential?
11. The development and evolution of R2P as international policy
12. Reforming the United Nations
13. The political role of the United Nations Secretary-General.