Major Powers and Peacekeeping - Perspectives, Priorities and the Challenges of Military Intervention

List of contents

Contents: Introduction, Owen A. Hartley and Rachel E. Utley. Major Power Perspectives: US Peace operations: the transition continues, Edward M. Spiers; Integration or retrenchment? Russian approaches to peacekeeping, Isabelle Facon; Amritsar to Basra: the influence of counter-insurgency upon the British perspective of peacekeeping, Richard P. Cousens, OBE; A means to wider ends? France, Germany and peacekeeping, Rachel E. Utley; May you live in interesting times: China, Japan and peacekeeping, Gary D. Rawnsley. Peacekeeping In Practice: Peacekeeping in Africa, David J. Francis; Peacekeeping in Asia: lessons learned from Afghanistan, Cambodia and Timor-Leste, Alpaslan Özerdem; Peacekeeping in the Middle East, Ali Ansari; The media, conflict and peacekeeping, Philip M. Taylor; Conclusion, Rachel E. Utley; Appendix: peacekeeping in the UN Charter, Index.

About the author

Rachel E. Utley is Lecturer in International History in the School of History, University of Leeds, UK.

Summary

This valuable volume explores the continuing significance of peacekeeping in international affairs, particularly in terms of its military dimensions, and examines the priorities and perspectives of the major powers in relation to their military participation in international peacekeeping and wider peace operations in the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Rachel E. Utley, Rachel E. Utley
• Assisted by: Rachel E. Utley (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138378896
• ISBN: 978-1-138-37889-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Politics & government, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution