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The United Nations, Peace and Security :From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The United Nations, Peace and Security :
Reminder of title:	From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect.
Author:	Thakur, Ramesh.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2006.
Description:	406 p.
Subject:	Security, International.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511755996 (electronic bk.)

The United Nations, Peace and Security :From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect.
Thakur, Ramesh.

The United Nations, Peace and Security :From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2006. - 406 p.

COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Authority, power, legitimacy; Ideas and norms as drivers of policy; The changing world context; 1 Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping; 2 Peace operations and the UN-US relationship; 3 Human security; 4 Human rights: civil society and the United Nations; 5 International criminal justice; 6 International sanctions; 7 The nuclear threat; 8 International terrorism; 9 Kosovo 1999; 10 Iraq's challenge to world order

A leading authority examines the changing role and structure of the UN, from avoiding inter-state wars to managing humanitarian emergencies. Topics examined include the use of force, the gap between legality and legitimacy, UN-US relations, the North-South divide, the international rule of law, and prospects for UN reform.

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Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511755996 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

174886
Security, International.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JZ4984.5 .T43 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 341.523

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