1st Edition
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This new study questions whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and Post-Cold War periods.
Focusing on contrasting case studies of the Congo, Cyprus, Somalia and Angola, as well as more recent operations in Sierra Leone and East Timor, it probes new evidence with clarity and rigour.
The authors conclude that most peacekeeping operations - whether in... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Peacekeeping in the Cold War / Post-Cold War 3. ONUC and the Congo, 1960-1964 4. UNFICYP and Cyprus, 1964- 5. UNOSOM and Somalia, 1992-1995 6. UNAVEM and Angola, 1988-1997 7. UN Peacekeeping: Lessons Learnt? 8. The Future of UN Peacekeeping
Biography
John Terence O'Neill is a former Colonel in the Irish Defence Forces, who has served on UN missions in the Congo (1961), Lebanon (1982-83) and Angola (1993), and recently completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Nicholas Rees is Dean of Graduate Studies and Jean Monnet Professor of European Institutions and International Relations at the University of Limerick. He is the co-author of Ireland's Poor Relations: Irish Foreign Policy Towards the Third World.
'John Terence O'Neill and co-author Nicholas Reese put forward no-nonsense recommendations' - Politique Internationale
