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Informationen zum Autor Touko Piiparinen is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research in Helsinki. He is on leave of absence from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, where he has been previously posted in the Unit for UN Affairs and as the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has also worked in the Political Representative of the ISAF operation in Afghanistan, and in the KFOR operation in Kosovo. Klappentext The book provides a structural analysis of the transformation of UN conflict management, from the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda to Darfur, and moves on to examine the development of Responsibility to Protect and the Peacebuilding Commission. Zusammenfassung The book provides a structural analysis of the transformation of UN conflict management, from the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda to Darfur, and moves on to examine the development of Responsibility to Protect and the Peacebuilding Commission. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Rwanda, The Genocide of Our Time 2. A Critical Realist Approach to Conflict Management 3. UN Conflict Management of the 1990s 4. Explanatory Theories of the UN’s Failure 5. Early Warning 6. Bureaucratic Mechanisms 7. Future Visions of Conflict Management. Conclusion
