The United Nations under Dag Hammarskjold, 1953-1961

The United Nations under Dag Hammarskjold, 1953-1961
Author: Peter B. Heller
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001-10-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1461702097

Organized around the major events that marked Hammarskjöld's eight and a half years in office, this volume takes stock of Hammarskjöld first as a person and then as an international functionary. Also included are a bibliography, chronology, index, and an appendix of significant documents.

Servant of Peace

Servant of Peace
Author: Dag Hammarskjöld
Publisher: London : Bodley Head
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1962
Genre: World politics
ISBN:

Taking Sides in Peacekeeping

Taking Sides in Peacekeeping
Author: Emily Paddon Rhoads
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198747241

United Nations peacekeeping constitutes the second largest military deployment around the world, and the organization's flagship enterprise. Once responsible simply for the job of observing frontiers and monitoring ceasefire agreements, UN missions are now frequently charged with the far more daunting task of 'robust' intervention- penalizing spoilers of peace and protecting civilians from peril. Taking Sides in Peacekeeping explores this transformationand its implications through the first comprehensive conceptual and empirical study of impartiality, a norm long considered to be the bedrock of UN peacekeeping. It reveals how a change in the dominantunderstanding of impartiality has politicized peacekeeping and, in some cases, effectively converted UN forces into one warring party among many. The book incorporates a large body of primary evidence and draws on extensive fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, site of the biggest and costliest mission in UN history (1999-2015).

Writers and Politics

Writers and Politics
Author: Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0571324266

Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965. 'I can still remember the excitement with which I discovered a copy of Writers and Politics, in a provincial library in Devonshire thirty years ago. Nobody who tries to write about either of those subjects, or about "the bloody crossroads" where they have so often met, can disown a debt to the Cruiser.' Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books 'When a liberal can write such pieces as "Mercy and Mercenaries", "Journal de Combat", "Varieties of Anti-Communism", "A New Yorker Critic", and "Generation of Saints", an important voice has returned to our culture.' Raymond Williams, Guardian

Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947–1960

Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947–1960
Author: Sean Brennan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1666913316

Representing the US government during the earliest era of the United Nations, Warren Austin, who served the Truman administration, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was Eisenhower's ambassador, both attempted to navigate a delicate path in tumultuous time period marked by the beginning of the Cold War, the end of European imperialism, the McCarthyite scare in the United States, and the threat of atomic annihilation. Their success in doing so laid the groundwork for the victory of the West over the Soviet Union and ensure the United Nations would win crucial US support and avoid the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations.