United Nations peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 / Norrie MacQueen.

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MacQueen, Norrie, 1950-

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TextSeries: Postwar worldPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781317877349
1317877349
9781315838595
1315838591
9781317877325
1317877322
9781317877332
1317877330
9781138144477
1138144479
058238253X
9780582382534

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa Since 1960.DDC classification:

355.357096 23

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DT352.8 .M28 2014

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Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; CONTENTS; Maps; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; 1. The Setting: The History, Politics and Law of United Nations Engagement with Africa; The elusive concept of 'peacekeeping'; The external state: Africa and the international system; The internal state: post-colonial trajectories in Africa; System and state in collision: order in African international relations; A typology of UN peacekeeping in Africa; 2. Patrolling the Ethnic Frontier: Central Africa; Beginnings: the Congo, 1960-64; Spectators to genocide: Rwanda, 1993-96.

Back to the Congo, 1999-Taking over: the Central African Republic, 1998-2000; 3. Managing Delayed Decolonization: Southern Africa; Linked withdrawal: Namibia and Angola, 1988-91; Failure in Angola, 1991-99; Success in Mozambique, 1992-94; 4. Controlling the Warlords: West Africa; Supervision and legitimization: Liberia, 1993-97; The slippery slope: Sierra Leone, 1998-; 5. Reconstructing and Defining the Post-Cold War State: The Horn of Africa; Making bad worse? Somalia, 1992-95; Textbook peacekeeping? Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2000-; 6. Making Borders: Trans-Saharan Africa.

Supervising intransigence: Western Sahara, 1991-A perfect miniature: Chad, 1994; 7. Conclusions: 'Firing into a Continent' -- or Making a Difference?; Appendix I: Chronology; Appendix II: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Africa; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index.

Summary: United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century. The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping and of Africa's post-independence politics and international relations. The peacekeeping project in Africa is then described on a region by region basis - Central Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Horn and Trans-Saharan Africa - with comparisons and contrasts within and be.

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United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century. The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping and of Africa's post-independence politics and international relations. The peacekeeping project in Africa is then described on a region by region basis - Central Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Horn and Trans-Saharan Africa - with comparisons and contrasts within and be.