Research Catalog

Title

Preventive diplomacy at the UN / Bertrand G. Ramcharan ; foreword by Leon Gordenker.

Author

Ramcharan, B. G.

Publication

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 266 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

United Nations intellectual history project series ;

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• United Nations intellectual history project (Series)

Alternative Title

Preventive diplomacy at the United Nations

Subject

• United Nations > History
• United Nations. Secretary-General
• Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
• Pacific settlement of international disputes
• Conflict management

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Series editors' foreword / by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss -- Foreword / by Leon Gordenker -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Secretaries-General on preventive diplomacy -- Introduction -- Preventive diplomacy in the concert of Europe, the Hague Peace Conferences, the League of Nations, and the UN Charter -- UN policies and doctrines of preventive diplomacy -- The practice of preventive diplomacy by the Security Council -- The practice of preventive diplomacy by the Secretaries-General -- Preventive diplomacy during the Cuban missile crisis -- The practice of preventive diplomacy by representatives of the Secretary-General and UN subregional offices -- The preventive role of UN peacekeepers and observers -- Preventive diplomacy in the economic, social, human rights, and humanitarian fields -- Preventive diplomacy in an age of genocide, terrorism, and nontraditional threats to security -- Cooperative preventive diplomacy with regional and subregional organizations -- Conclusion: some thoughts for the future -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780253351470 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253219831 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007049752

OCLC

• 177008157
• SCSB-12502411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library