The United Nations, Peace and Security

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Dewey number: 341.23
Dewey version: 22
LC Classification: JZ4984.5 .T43 2006
LC Subject headings:
- United Nations
- Security, International
- Pacific settlement of international disputes
- International relations

(ISBN-13: 9780521855174 | ISBN-10: 0521855179)

List of figures		page ix
List of tables		x
Foreword, Gareth Evans		xi
Acknowledgements		xvi

Introduction		1

PART I	An international organisation for keeping the peace
1	Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping	27
2	Peace operations and the UN–US relationship	48

PART II	Soft security perspectives
3	Human security	71
4	Human rights: civil society and the United Nations	93
5	International criminal justice	113
6	International sanctions	134

PART III	Hard security issues
7	The nuclear threat	159
8	International terrorism	181
9	Kosovo 1999	203
10	Iraq's challenge to world order	222
11	The responsibility to protect	244
12	Developing countries and the eroding non-intervention norm	264

PART IV	Institutional developments
13	Reforming the United Nations	291
14	The political role of the United Nations Secretary-General	320
	Conclusion: at the crossroads of ideals and reality	343

Index		370