Building States - The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 19451965

Building States examines how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s-and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik traces how UN personnel pioneered a new kind of state building in the midst of decolonization.

List of contents

Introduction: Managing the World
1. The UN and the Colonial World: International Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories
2. How to Build a State?: The UN in Libya
3. If Ten Years Suffice for Somaliland . . .
4. Moving Beyond Advice: Pioneering Administrative Assistance in Bolivia
5. Hammarskjöld, Decolonization, and the Proposal for an International Administrative Service
6. State-Building Meets Peacekeeping: UN Civilian Operations in the Congo Crisis, 1960–1964
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Eva-Maria Muschik is a historian and an assistant professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna.

Summary

Building States examines how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s—and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik traces how UN personnel pioneered a new kind of state building in the midst of decolonization.

Additional text

Building States is a highly original book. It pushes forward our understanding of the international history of the United Nations, and it also acts as a powerful corrective to studies that lionize uncritically the work of the UN.

Product details

• Authors: Eva-Maria Muschik, Eva-Maria (Research Associate and Lecture Muschik, Eva-Maria (Research Associate and Lecturer Muschik
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780231200257
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20025-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, General and world history, International institutions, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), United Nations & Un Agencies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, history; political science; diplomacy