Beschreibung:
Jean-Marc Coicaud, a former senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, is the head of the United Nations University (UNU) office at UN headquarters in New York. Coicaud has been a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School and New York University's School of Law, and held appointments with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Parliament's Financial Committee, the Sorbonne, and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
Provides an examination of the period of "robust" UN-mandated peacekeeping missions in humanitarian crises.
Introduction; The Extent and the Limits of Peace Operations in the 1990s; The United Nations and Its Shortcomings as an International Bureaucracy; The Structure of International Politics and the Dilemmas of Solidarity; Clinton's Foreign Policy and the Quandary of National and International Interests; The Bush Revolution in U.S. Foreign Policy and the Sidelining of Internationalism; Toward the International Rule of Law; Afterword.