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Explains the United Nations' key roles in underwriting international security, humanitarian protection and the international rule of law.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
