Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping : the United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology.

Time and again the United Nations has deployed peacekeeping missions in trouble spots around the globe: Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda. Has peace ensued? Have these missions, in fact, made any difference in the disorder and destruction they are purported to forestall? Or are they, as Franois Debrix c...

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Main Author: Debrix, Franois
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Series:Borderlines.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Re-Envisioning the United Nations; 1. Destabilizing Leviathan: Revisiting the Order/ Anarchy Debate through a Postmodern(ized) Hobbes; 2. Space Quest: The UN and the Politics of Panoptic Surveillance; 3. From a Hopeless Situation to Operation Restore Hope, and Beyond: Suture, Ideology, and Simulation in Somalia; 4. Visions of Otherness and Interventionism in Bosnia, or How the West Was Won Again; 5. A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Medical Assistance and Humanitarianism as Substitutes for UN Peacekeeping. 
505 8 |a 6. Theorizing the Visual: New Critical HorizonsAppendix: Chronology of the Rwandan Crisis; Notes; Index. 
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