On Building Peace

Only 25 years after the end of the Cold War, the Western-dominated global order is fading and our hopes that liberal democracy would spread and bring world peace are evaporating. While the West is increasingly preoccupied with its internal problems, threats to global peace have fundamentally changed...

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Autor principal: Von der Schulenburg, Michael (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2017.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40601572*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Is Peace Escaping Us?; 1 The Fading of the Post-Cold War Peace Order; 1.1 The Emergence of a Post-Cold War Peace Order; 1.2 The Unraveling of Western Global Dominance; 1.3 The Delusion of a Just Peace; 2 The Failing of the Nation-State; 2.1 The Surge in Intrastate Armed Conflicts; 2.2 The Rise of Belligerent Nonstate Actors; 2.3 The Neglected Dual Character of Nation-States; 3 The Marginalization of the United Nations; 3.1 The Eroded International Law of the United Nations; 3.2 The Inherent Limitations of the United Nations.
  • 3.3 The Loss of Innocence of the United Nations4 Rescuing the Nation-State; 4.1 The Nation-State and Peacebuilding; 4.2 The Nation-State and Belligerent Nonstate Actors; 4.3 The Nation-State and Peace Agreements; 5 Building Peace on Collective Security; 5.1 Restoring the Primacy of the UN Charter; 5.2 Expanding the Mandate of the UN Charter; 5.3 Broadening Collective UN Decision-Making Processes; 6 Striking a New Grand Bargain for Global Peace and Security; 6.1 Fears of a Global Power Vacuum; 6.2 Prospect of Preserving Democratic Values; 6.3 Risks of Fighting the Last Wars.
  • 7 Must Future Peace Be Different?Annex I
  • UN Peace Missions: When Peacekeepers Turn into a Conflict Party; Annex II
  • UN Reforms: Two Reviews Are One Too Many; Annex III
  • A New Diplomacy for Intrastate Relations; Annex IV
  • Glossary of Terms Used; Bibliography; Text Boxes by Chapters; Introduction
  • The Syrian Conflict and the End of the Post-Cold War Peace Order; Box 1.1
  • Promises of Paradise; Box 1.2
  • Wars Shape Peace; Box 1.3
  • Will We Be Able to Manage This?; Box 2.1
  • Do Intrastate Conflicts Come in Waves?; Box 2.2
  • Afghanistan's Unsuccessful Liberators.
  • Box 2.3
  • Iraq and the Storming of a Country under SiegeBox 3.1
  • Shifts in UN Peace Operations; Box 3.2
  • From the Iran-Iraq War to the Sierra Leonean Civil War; Box 3.3
  • Rwanda, the Peacekeepers' Nightmare; Box 4.1
  • Is Peacebuilding Trying to Cheat History?; Box 4.2
  • Who Is Responsible for Lynching Farkhunda?; Box 4.3
  • Holy Books and Secular Constitutions; Box 5.1
  • Sierra Leone: When the British Saved the United Nations; Box 5.2
  • Iraq's Mistrusted Nation Builders; Box 5.3
  • Libya and the Failure to Protect; Box 6.1
  • Candles, Flowers, and the Caliphate.
  • Box 6.2
  • Refugees, Migrants, and Teddy BearsBox 6.3
  • Are We Setting Ourselves Up for Failure?