Twisting Arms and Flexing Muscles - Humanitarian Intervention and Peacebuilding in Perspective

Zusammenfassung This volume offers new insights, tools and material based on field research and interviews into the multifaceted dimension of 'twisting arms and flexing muscles' of humanitarian intervention, military force and peacebuilding in different cases and contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction! Natalie Mychajlyszyn; International politics! local conflicts and intervention! S. Neil MacFarlane; Human insecurity and problematic peacekeeping in Africa: beyond 'Blood Diamonds' and HIV/AIDS! Timothy M. Shaw; Short-term gain! long-term pain: an assessment of United Nations chapter VII activities in Central Africa! Robert Astroff and David Meren; Twisting one arm: the effects of biased intervenors! David Carment and Dane Rowlands; Twisting arms or shaking hands? how to put peacekeepers out of business! David Last; Strange bedfellows in humanitarian crises: NGOs and the military! Donna Winslow; Conclusion: dilemmas of peacekeeping at the start of the twenty-first century! Timothy M. Shaw and Natalie Mychajlyszyn; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy M. Shaw
• Assisted by: Natalie Mychajlyszyn (Editor), Timothy M. Shaw (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138623101
• ISBN: 978-1-138-62310-1
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations