The united nations, peace and security: from collective security to the responsibility to protect/ (Record no. 198877)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781316627723 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 341.23 |
| Item number | THA/U |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thakur, Ramesh |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The united nations, peace and security: from collective security to the responsibility to protect/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ramesh Thakur |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | UK: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii, 428p . |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction; Part I An international organisation for keeping the peace; 1 Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping; International organisation; Pacific settlement and collective security; Classical peacekeeping; Peace operations; UN peacekeepers pay the ultimate price; Review and reform of UN peace operations; Peacekeeping abuses; Impact of peacekeeping; Conclusion.<br/> 2 Peace operations and the UN-US relationship Overview; The USA and traditional peacekeeping; Post-Cold War optimism; The US retreat from multilateralism; Relative gains and costs of unilateralism and multilateralism; Conclusion; Part II Soft security perspectives; <br/>3 Human security and human rights; Human security; Security as a contested concept; A template for policy and action; Human rights; Universal human rights; UN machinery; The retreat of human rights; UN complicity; Civil society and the United Nations; Conclusion;<br/> 4 International criminal justice. International law and international criminal accountability The International Criminal Court; Normative incoherence; Democratic authority and accountability deficits; Institutional integrity; Peace and justice or peace versus justice?; Transitional justice; Normative inconsistency; Selective victors' justice or impartial universal justice?; Torture and rendition; Universal justice constrained by power politics; UN Security Council; The North-South divide and the rule of international law<br/> 5 International sanctions; Defining, measuring and proving success. The limited utility of sanctions Ineffectual; Nuclear non-proliferation; Counter-productive; Self-damaging; Strained relations with third parties and allies; Questionable morality; Termination trap; Iraq's oil-for-food programme (OFFP); Smartening up the sanctions act; Conclusion; Part III Hard security issues<br/>6 The nuclear threat; The state of play of nuclear weapons in 2015; Disarmament; Non-proliferation; North Korea; Iran; Incentivised sanctions; Norms; Treaties; The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty; The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; Nuclear-weapon-free zones; Nuclear safety and security. Compliance and coercionMitigating and eliminating nuclear risks; Conclusion; 7 International terrorism; 9/11 and the 'war on terror'; Fashioning a global response; Nuclear terrorism and ICSANT; Law enforcement; Root causes; Democracy, good governance and the rule of law; Death from the air: drone strikes as a weapon in the war on terror; Group grievance; Intractable conflicts; Poverty; Conclusion; 8 Kosovo 1999 and Iraq 2003 as unilateral interventions; Kosovo 1999 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Security, International-Pacific settlement of international disputes |
| General subdivision | United Nations |
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| Keyword | Responsibility to protect (International law)-Peacekeeping forces |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 06/05/2020 | 13 | 1862.65 | 341.23 THA/U | 48867 | 06/05/2020 | General Books |