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The United Nations and Human Security highlights and analyzes the changing peace and security challenges faced by the United Nations in an evolving international environment that is no longer solely characterized by states and inter-state security. The authors, who comprise both scholars and UN practitioners, cover a wide range of pressing current issues - including refugees, international tribunals, the promotion of democracy, ethics, regional organizations, humanitarian intervention, conflict prevention and peacekeeping - that form a cutting-edge and controversial security agenda.
List of contents
Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONALISM: CONSIDERATIONS AND CONTENTIONS Introduction: Beyond Peacekeeping?; E.Newman & O.P.Richmond Human Security and Preventative Action Strategies; J.G.Cockell The Limits of UN Multi-dimensional Peace Operations; O.P.Richmond (Re)building Political Society: the UN in Democratization; E.Newman Refugees, Human Rights and the Issue of Human Security; G.G.Troeller PART II: THE UN AND THE LIBERAL ETHIC: NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS Community, Solidarity and Late Westphalian International Relations; P.Bacon Echoes of the 'Mission Civilisatrice': Peacekeeping in the post-Cold-War Era; R.Paris PART III: MEDIATING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: BEYOND WESTPHALIA? International Peace and Security and International Criminal Justice; R.Kerr Playing with Fire: Humanitarian Intervention Post-Kosovo; A.Schnabel The UN and Regional Organizations; M.M.McKenzie UN Finances: What Are the Costs and Who Pays the Bills?; A.McDermott Elections and 'Protectorate Democracy' in South-east Europe; M.Pugh Consolidating Democratic Governance in Post-Conflict Central America; C.Santos Index
About the author
PAUL BACON Lecturer in International Relations, Shumei University
JOHN G. COCKELL Associate, Conflict Analysis and Development Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science
RACHEL KERR Doctoral Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College, London
MARY M. MCKENZIE Assistant Professor in Political Science, Grossmont College
ANTHONY L. MCDERMOTT Formerly Senior Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
ROLAND PARIS Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
MICHAEL PUGH Director, International Studies Research Centre, University of Plymouth, UK
CARLOS SANTOS Senior Programme Officer, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
ALBRECHT SCHNABEL Academic Programme Officer, Peace and Governance Programme, United Nations University
GARY G. TROELLER UNHCR Regional Representative, Baltic and Nordic Countries
Summary
The United Nations and Human Security highlights and analyzes the changing peace and security challenges faced by the United Nations in an evolving international environment that is no longer solely characterized by states and inter-state security.
