Taking sides in peacekeeping : impartiality and the future of the United Nations / Emily Paddon Rhoads.

United Nations peacekeeping has undergone radical transformation in the new millennium. 'Taking Sides in Peacekeeping' explores this transformation and its implications, in what is the first conceptual and empirical study of impartiality in UN peacekeeping. The book challenges dominant sch...

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Main Author: Rhoads, Emily Paddon, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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