Beyond the National Interest : The Future of un Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an ERA of U.S. Primacy

by Coicaud, Jean-Marc

• ISBN13: 9781601270078
• ISBN10: 1601270070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr

Summary

In this penetrating scholarly examination, Jean-Marc Coicaud details the major peace operations launched by the leading NATO powers in the 1990s; examines how international democratic solidarity-the bonds of international community that compel nation-states to help victims of internal conflicts and humanitarian disasters in failed and failing states-has been stretched thin in the post-Cold War era; discusses how, and in what regard, the leading Western powers were ill-equipped to handle new threats to international security.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: The Paradox of International Solidarity	p. 3
The Extent and Limits of Peace Operations in the 1990s	p. 13
The United Nations and Its Shortcomings as an International Bureaucracy	p. 35
The Structure of International Politics and the Dilemmas of Solidarity	p. 75
Clinton's Foreign Policy and the Quandary of National and International Interests	p. 111
The Bush "Revolution" in U.S. Foreign Policy and the Sidelining of Internationalism	p. 139
Toward the International Rule of Law	p. 169
Afterword	p. 207
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 263
About the Author	p. 295
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