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Title Land of blue helmets : the United Nations and the Arab world / edited by Karim Makdisi and Vijay Prashad.
Publisher Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Copyright date ©2017



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Contents The role of the UN Secretary General: a historical assessment / Andrew Gilmour -- Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as seen from a Special Commission / Lori Allen -- On behalf of the United Nations: serving as Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council for Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 / Richard Falk -- The UN statehood bid: Palestine's flirtation with multilateralism / Noura Erakat -- Why the UN is not the problem in Syria / Asli Bali and Aziz Rana -- Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 for Lebanon in the shadow of the "War on Terror" / Karim Makdisi -- The UN Security Council and ghosts of Iraq / Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone -- Iraq: war, sanctions, and more: twenty years in the shadow of Chapter VII / Coralie Hindawi -- Libya: a UN resolution and NATO's failure to protect / Jeff Bachman -- Peacekeeping and the Arab world: India's rise and its impact on UN missions in Sudan / Zachariah Mampilly -- The UN human rights game and the Arab region: playing not to lose / Fateh Azzam -- The politics of the sanctions on Iraq and the UN humanitarian exception / Hans Christof von Sponeck -- An agency for the Palestinians / Jalal Al Husseini -- Challenged but steadfast: nine years with Palestinian refugees and UNRWA / Filippo Grandi -- UNHCR and the Iraq Refugee Operation (2007-2009): resettling refugees, changing the Middle East humanitarian landscape / Arafat Jamal -- The Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East / Shaden Khallaf -- The Middle East: a mandatory return to humanitarian action / Caroline Abu-Sada -- The UN, ESCWA, and development in the Arab world / Omar Dahi -- The United Nations and Palestine, liberation and development / Raja Khalidi -- Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western strategies in the context of colonization / Mandy Turner -- ILO and workers' rights in the Arab region: the need to return to the basics / Walid Hamdan -- Development as counterinsurgency in peacekeeping: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and "Quick Impact Projects" / Susanne Kassem -- The protective shields: civil society organizations and the UN in the Arab region / Kinda Mohamadieh.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780520961982 (electronic bk.)
0520961986 (electronic bk.)
9780520286931 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520286936
9780520286948
0520286944
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Subject United Nations.
Alt author Makdisi, Karim, 1970-
Prashad, Vijay.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents The role of the UN Secretary General: a historical assessment / Andrew Gilmour -- Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as seen from a Special Commission / Lori Allen -- On behalf of the United Nations: serving as Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council for Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 / Richard Falk -- The UN statehood bid: Palestine's flirtation with multilateralism / Noura Erakat -- Why the UN is not the problem in Syria / Asli Bali and Aziz Rana -- Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 for Lebanon in the shadow of the "War on Terror" / Karim Makdisi -- The UN Security Council and ghosts of Iraq / Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone -- Iraq: war, sanctions, and more: twenty years in the shadow of Chapter VII / Coralie Hindawi -- Libya: a UN resolution and NATO's failure to protect / Jeff Bachman -- Peacekeeping and the Arab world: India's rise and its impact on UN missions in Sudan / Zachariah Mampilly -- The UN human rights game and the Arab region: playing not to lose / Fateh Azzam -- The politics of the sanctions on Iraq and the UN humanitarian exception / Hans Christof von Sponeck -- An agency for the Palestinians / Jalal Al Husseini -- Challenged but steadfast: nine years with Palestinian refugees and UNRWA / Filippo Grandi -- UNHCR and the Iraq Refugee Operation (2007-2009): resettling refugees, changing the Middle East humanitarian landscape / Arafat Jamal -- The Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East / Shaden Khallaf -- The Middle East: a mandatory return to humanitarian action / Caroline Abu-Sada -- The UN, ESCWA, and development in the Arab world / Omar Dahi -- The United Nations and Palestine, liberation and development / Raja Khalidi -- Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western strategies in the context of colonization / Mandy Turner -- ILO and workers' rights in the Arab region: the need to return to the basics / Walid Hamdan -- Development as counterinsurgency in peacekeeping: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and "Quick Impact Projects" / Susanne Kassem -- The protective shields: civil society organizations and the UN in the Arab region / Kinda Mohamadieh.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780520961982 (electronic bk.)
0520961986 (electronic bk.)
9780520286931 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520286936
9780520286948
0520286944
Subject United Nations.
Alt author Makdisi, Karim, 1970-
Prashad, Vijay.

Subject United Nations.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents The role of the UN Secretary General: a historical assessment / Andrew Gilmour -- Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as seen from a Special Commission / Lori Allen -- On behalf of the United Nations: serving as Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council for Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 / Richard Falk -- The UN statehood bid: Palestine's flirtation with multilateralism / Noura Erakat -- Why the UN is not the problem in Syria / Asli Bali and Aziz Rana -- Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 for Lebanon in the shadow of the "War on Terror" / Karim Makdisi -- The UN Security Council and ghosts of Iraq / Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone -- Iraq: war, sanctions, and more: twenty years in the shadow of Chapter VII / Coralie Hindawi -- Libya: a UN resolution and NATO's failure to protect / Jeff Bachman -- Peacekeeping and the Arab world: India's rise and its impact on UN missions in Sudan / Zachariah Mampilly -- The UN human rights game and the Arab region: playing not to lose / Fateh Azzam -- The politics of the sanctions on Iraq and the UN humanitarian exception / Hans Christof von Sponeck -- An agency for the Palestinians / Jalal Al Husseini -- Challenged but steadfast: nine years with Palestinian refugees and UNRWA / Filippo Grandi -- UNHCR and the Iraq Refugee Operation (2007-2009): resettling refugees, changing the Middle East humanitarian landscape / Arafat Jamal -- The Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East / Shaden Khallaf -- The Middle East: a mandatory return to humanitarian action / Caroline Abu-Sada -- The UN, ESCWA, and development in the Arab world / Omar Dahi -- The United Nations and Palestine, liberation and development / Raja Khalidi -- Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western strategies in the context of colonization / Mandy Turner -- ILO and workers' rights in the Arab region: the need to return to the basics / Walid Hamdan -- Development as counterinsurgency in peacekeeping: the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and "Quick Impact Projects" / Susanne Kassem -- The protective shields: civil society organizations and the UN in the Arab region / Kinda Mohamadieh.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Makdisi, Karim, 1970-
Prashad, Vijay.
ISBN 9780520961982 (electronic bk.)
0520961986 (electronic bk.)
9780520286931 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520286936
9780520286948
0520286944

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