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List of figures | p. viii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
List of abbreviations | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Rwanda, the genocide of our time | p. 14 |
Introduction | p. 14 |
Precolonial and colonial Rwanda | p. 17 |
Hutu Republic and genocide | p. 18 |
'Lessons learned', peoples betrayed: genocide ten years on | p. 23 |
Conclusion | p. 25 |
A critical realist approach to conflict management | p. 26 |
Introduction | p. 26 |
Developing critical realism for the study of international relations: from philosophy to a methodological framework | p. 29 |
Devising the method of double movement | p. 33 |
Mechanisms and possibilities: new ontological building blocks of theory on conflict management | p. 38 |
Conclusion | p. 42 |
UN conflict management of the 1990s | p. 44 |
Introduction | p. 44 |
Setting the scene for analysis: post-Cold War conflict management | p. 46 |
Detection mechanisms of the UN | p. 48 |
Securitisation mechanisms of the UN | p. 51 |
Conclusion | p. 57 |
Explanatory theories of the UN's failure | p. 60 |
Introduction | p. 60 |
Overview of the UN's failure | p. 61 |
'First wave' of explanations: the role of member states | p. 64 |
'Second wave' of explanations: the role of the Secretariat | p. 69 |
Transcending the 'blame game': towards a deeper understanding of the UN's failure | p. 74 |
Conclusion | p. 76 |
Early warning | p. 78 |
Introduction | p. 78 |
Phenomenal level: the malfunctions of early warning | p. 79 |
Structural level: the root causes of the malfunctions of early warning | p. 83 |
Emancipatory move: locating possibilities for the early detection of genocide | p. 90 |
Conclusion | p. 95 |
Bureaucratic mechanisms | p. 99 |
Introduction | p. 99 |
Relationship between early warning and bureaucratic rationalisation | p. 101 |
Dysfunctions of bureaucratic rationalisation during genocide | p. 104 |
Mechanism of organisational learning | p. 114 |
Emancipatory move: locating possibilities for transforming bureaucratic constraints | p. 118 |
Tribalisation and the statist paradigm of Western thinking | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 128 |
Future visions of conflict management | p. 131 |
Introduction | p. 131 |
New division of labour as a counterstrategy for 'body-bag syndrome' | p. 133 |
A pragmatic turn in peacekeeping | p. 135 |
A functional shift in control mechanisms | p. 136 |
Mainstreaming RtoP and thinking out of bureaucratic boxes | p. 138 |
Defending the baseline of humanity as a future vision of the UN | p. 148 |
Defender of truth: the second vision of a future UN | p. 159 |
Conclusion | p. 163 |
Conclusion | p. 168 |
Notes | p. 182 |
Bibliography | p. 203 |
Index | p. 219 |
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