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OverviewDangerous Diplomacy reassesses the role of the UN Secretariat during the Rwandan genocide. With the help of new sources, including the personal diaries and private papers of the late Sir Marrack Goulding-an Under-Secretary-General from 1988 to 1997 and the second highest-ranking UN official during the genocide-the book situates the Rwanda operation within the context of bureaucratic and power-political friction existing at UN Headquarters in the early 1990s. The book shows how this confrontation led to a lack of coordination between key UN departments on issues as diverse as reconnaissance, intelligence, and crisis management. Yet Dangerous Diplomacy goes beyond these institutional pathologies and identifies the conceptual origins of the Rwanda failure in the gray area that separates peacebuilding and peacekeeping. The difficulty of separating these two UN functions explains why six decades after the birth of the UN, it has still not been possible to demarcate the precise roles of some key UN departments. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Herman Tutehau Salton (Asian University for Women Bangladesh and USA)Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780191797972ISBN 10: 0191797979 Publication Date: 21 September 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn extremely important and valuable work, Dangerous diplomacy contributes substantially and impressively to understanding the pathologies of politics and power at the United Nations, specifically with regard to the organization's actions before and during the Rwandan genocide. -- Naom Schimel (McGill University, Canada and University of Oxford), International Affairs 94:2 Herman T. Salton's book is a work of great ethical and intellectual depth, as well as of interpersonal and organizational insight, which is genuinely exceptional, original and of superlative quality - it is a major contribution to literature on the UN. -- Noam Schimmel, International Affairs The book is a fascinating read and offers genuinely novel insights. Salton offers a politically most relevant insight on collaboration and communication between the UN's leading departments. -- From the Laudatio for the ISA Chadwick Alger Prize """An extremely important and valuable work, Dangerous diplomacy contributes substantially and impressively to understanding the pathologies of politics and power at the United Nations, specifically with regard to the organization's actions before and during the Rwandan genocide."" -- Naom Schimel (McGill University, Canada and University of Oxford), International Affairs 94:2 ""Herman T. Salton's book is a work of great ethical and intellectual depth, as well as of interpersonal and organizational insight, which is genuinely exceptional, original and of superlative quality - it is a major contribution to literature on the UN."" -- Noam Schimmel, International Affairs ""The book is a fascinating read and offers genuinely novel insights. Salton offers a politically most relevant insight on collaboration and communication between the UN's leading departments."" -- From the Laudatio for the ISA Chadwick Alger Prize" Author InformationHerman Tutehau Salton is Associate Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) at the Asian University for Women, a liberal arts college in Chittagong, Bangladesh, with a support foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that promotes gender empowerment and draws students from across South-East Asia. He teaches and publishes in the areas of international politics, international law, human rights, and the United Nations. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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