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Summary
Summary
Since the end of the Cold War, United Nations peace operations have become an established and prominent feature of world politics. From Liberia to East Timor, the UN now carries out extensive governance-related functions and is a significant political force in Southern states and societies. Here Richard Al-Qaq leads us to a radical new understanding of the UN and its role in international politics. He uncovers the political and socio-economic import of such 'peace' activities for subject societies, and raises important questions about the functioning and dynamics of the global political order. A critical view of the internal process of programmatic reform within the UN is elaborated by detailed studies of the politics of UN peace operations in three seminal cases of the 1990s, in Somalia, Rwanda and Angola. This book is essential for understanding the new role of the UN, especially in Africa, and the politics of so-called humanitarian intervention and peace-building.
Author Notes
Richard Kareem Al-Qaq holds a PhD in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Between 2002 and 2007, Dr Al-Qaq taught post-graduate International Politics at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS. He currently lives and works in Brazil, where he writes on UN peacekeeping and UN reform.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 United Nations Peace Operations and World Order: A reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 | p. 13 |
| 2 Defining the Work of the United Nations: From the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda | p. 35 |
| 3 Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War: The advance of peace operations | p. 49 |
| 4 United Nations Misadventures in Somalia: Militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s | p. 70 |
| 5 Post-Colonial Rwanda and United Nations Conveyance Operations: From trusteeship to regime change | p. 97 |
| 6 Manufacturing Peace in Angola: The Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations | p. 121 |
| 7 Managing World Order on the Periphery | p. 149 |
| Notes | p. 174 |
| Bibliography | p. 230 |
| Index | p. 251 |
