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ISBN: | 9780748636983 0748636986 9780748687893 0748687890 9780748636969 074863696X 9780748636976 0748636978
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Explores the UN's track record of military action, from cold war 'brushfire' peacekeeping to the fractured globalisation of the contemporary world MacQueen assesses armed humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Using empirical evidence, he compiles a 'balance sheet' of the UN's successes and failures and asks hard questions about humanitarian intervention's short and long-term value. Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issues Case study chapters on sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans and East Timor Confronts hard questions about the short and long-term value of these interventions
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Other form: | Print version: MacQueen, Norrie, 1950- Humanitarian intervention and the United Nations. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011 9780748636976
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Standard no.: | 9786613133137
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