Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewDuring the first decade of the twenty-first century, the rising demand for peacekeepers saw the United Nations (UN) operate at a historically unprecedented tempo, with increases in the number and size of missions as well as in the scope and complexity of their mandates. The need to deploy over 120,000 UN peacekeepers and the demands placed upon them in the field have threatened to outstrip the willingness and to some extent capacity of the UN's Member States. This situation raised the questions of why states contribute forces to UN missions and, conversely, what factors inhibit them from doing more? Providing Peacekeepers answers these questions. After summarizing the challenges confronting the UN in its force generation efforts, the book develops a new framework for analyzing UN peacekeeping contributions in light of the evidence presented in sixteen case study chapters which examine the experiences of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Nepal, Uruguay, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Japan. The book concludes by offering recommendations for how the UN might develop new strategies for force generation so as to meet the foreseeable challenges of twenty-first century peacekeeping and improve the quantity and quality of its uniformed peacekeepers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alex J. Bellamy (Professor of International Security, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University) , Paul D. Williams (Associate Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.858kg ISBN: 9780199672820ISBN 10: 0199672822 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 28 February 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Challenges of Providing Peacekeepers - Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams Part I: Context 1: Donald C.F. Daniel: Contemporary Patterns in Peace Operations, 2000-2010 2: Katharina Coleman: Token Troop Contributions to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Part II: The Permanent Five 3: Adam C. Smith: United States of America 4: Paul D. Williams: The United Kingdom 5: Thierry Tardy: France 6: Bates Gill and Chin-Hao Huang: The People's Republic of China 7: Alexander Nikitin: The Russian Federation Part III: Top Contributors (2000-10) 8: Rashed Uz Zaman and Niloy R. Biswas: Bangladesh 9: Lt Gen. Dipankar Banerjee: India 10: Inam-ur-Rahman Malik: Pakistan 11: Adekeye Adebajo: Nigeria 12: Kwesi Aning and Festus Aubyn: Ghana 13: Arturo C. Sotomayor: Nepal 14: Arturo C. Sotomayor: Uruguay Part IV: Rising Contributors? 15: Kai Michael Kenkel: Brazil 16: Nil S. Satana: Turkey 17: Cedric de Coning and Walter Lotze: South Africa 18: Katsumi Ishizuka: Japan Part V: Conclusions 19: Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams: Explaining the National Politics of Peacekeeping 20: Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams: UN Force Generation: Key Lessons and Future Strategies IndexReviewsThere is nothing lacking in this study ... [Bellamy] has done a magnificent piece of comparative and historical research and exposition. Bruno Tertrais, Survival this book provides key empirical information alongside important conceptual and theoretical perspectives on the issue of UN contributions. It is an ideal resource for higher-level undergraduate or graduate students, academics and usefully practitioners. It also meets its objective of helping to further debate about the possibilities and limits of providing peacekeepers. B.K. Greener, International Peacekeeping There is nothing lacking in this study ... [Bellamy] has done a magnificent piece of comparative and historical research and exposition. Bruno Tertrais, Survival Author InformationAlex J. Bellamy serves as a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York, Honorary Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Director (International) of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and Director of the Human Protection Hub. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is Professor of International Security at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia. Paul D. Williams serves as a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York and as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University. He is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
