Blue Helmet Bureaucrats - United Nations Peacekeeping Reinvention of Colonialism, 19451971

"A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping from 1945-1971, focusing on the influence of UN staff deployed to conflicts in the Global South. Margot Tudor identifies the unexplored colonial structures, racial prejudices, and organisational politics that shaped UN peacekeeping practices during the instability of decolonisation"--

About the author

Margot Tudor is a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Exeter. She won the BISA Michael Nicolson Thesis Prize in 2021 and her article, 'Gatekeepers to Decolonisation', won the ISA History Section's Merze Tate Award in 2022.

Product details

• Authors: Margot Tudor, Margot (University of Exeter) Tudor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009264938
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926493-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Human Rights in History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; United Nations, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Civil rights & citizenship, International institutions, Human rights, civil rights, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Political, Socio-Economic & Strategic Groupings, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period)