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Does humanitarian intervention 'work'? Could it work better if approached differently? Or should we just, in the words of one critic, 'give war a chance'?
Since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent surge in civil and international conflicts, the UN has been faced by an ever-increasing set of demands on its military capacity. This book traces the evolution of its armed humanitarian intervention from the grand ambitions for forceful collective security through the 'brushfire' peacekeeping of the cold war years to its engagement with the present globalised yet fractured world order.
Key Features
Presents a concise analytical overview of the theoretical, moral and practical issues
Explores the general setting of contemporary humanitarian intervention
Assesses the actual record of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention on a region-by-region basis, from the Balkans to Africa and Southeast Asia
Compiles a balance sheet of success and failure in the UN's efforts and confronts hard questions about their short and long-term value
Norrie MacQueen is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee. He is author of The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa (1997), The United Nations since 1945 (1999), United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa since 1960 (2002), Peacekeeping and the International System (2006), Colonialism (2007) and The United Nations: A Beginner's Guide (2010).

Norrie MacQueen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Dundee in Scotland and has previously worked in various parts of the world, including Africa and the South Pacific. He has published widely on the United Nations, peacekeeping and the politics and international relations of the global South.

United Nations Military Interventions since 1948; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1. Evolution: Intervention and Humanitarianism from Collective Security to Peacekeeping; 2:.After the Cold War: a New World Order?; 3. Sovereignty and Community: a "Responsibility to Protect"?; 4. Africa: Post-Colonial Intervention amidst Fragile Statehood; 5. Humanitarian Intervention and Coercive Action: the Balkans; 6. A Model Intervention? The Birth of Timor Leste; 7. Is it Worth it? Success and Failure in UN Intervention; Notes and References; Suggested Further Reading.