The united nations, peace and security: from collective security to the responsibility to protect/ Ramesh Thakur

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.
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;
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;
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
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
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