[PDF] Decolonization Sovereignty And Peacekeeping eBook

Author : Hanny Hilmy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030576248

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This book analyses three major themes: decolonization, sovereignty, and peacekeeping. Their interaction during the national liberation struggle during the Cold War, culminating in the 1956 Suez War, addresses the principle of national sovereignty after World War II in the framework of the UN Charter. The new peacekeeping operations were used in many conflicts, during which the Charter’s theory and application were tested. The rise of the USA as the key Western power and Israel’s special role in the Middle East have created a new confrontational dynamic for the entire region. The interaction between the book’s main themes in the field has led to the principles of peacekeeping in international and national conflicts being reviewed in light of the discredited ‘Capstone Doctrine’. The author argues that state sovereignty is sacrosanct, but humanitarian interventions are equally imperative in his view. Striking the right balance is crucial for managing conflicts. The author: · offers a well-informed historical account and an authoritative political analysis · was exposed to UNEF deployments and termination and knows key peacekeeping actors · draws on original documents, memoirs, and interviews · includes unpublished photos and previously unavailable documentary material · has experience in government and academia

Author : Nicole Eggers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 135104401X

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Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order to expand our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the independence of colonized peoples. This book will prove foundational for scholars and students of modern history, international history, and postcolonial history.

Author : Luise White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 022623519X

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A truly satisfactory history of Rhodesia, one that takes into account both the African history and that of the whites, has never been written. That is, until now. In this book Luise White highlights the crucial tension between Rhodesia as it imagined itself and Rhodesia as it was imagined outside the country. Using official documents, novels, memoirs, and conversations with participants in the events taking place between 1965, when Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain, and 1980 when indigenous African rule was established through the creation of the state of Zimbabwe, White reveals that Rhodesians represented their state as a kind of utopian place where white people dared to stand up for themselves and did what needed to be done. It was imagined to be a place vastly better than the decolonized dystopias to its north. In all these representations, race trumped all else including any notion of nation. Outside Rhodesia, on the other hand, it was considered a white supremacist utopia, a country that had taken its own independence rather than let white people live under black rule. Even as Rhodesia edged toward majority rule to end international sanctions and a protracted guerilla war, racialized notions of citizenship persisted. One man, one vote, became the natural logic of decolonization of this illegally independent minority-ruled renegade state. Voter qualification with its minutia of which income was equivalent to how many years of schooling, and how African incomes or years of schooling could be rendered equivalent to whites, illustrated the core of ideas about, and experiences of, racial domination. White s account of the politics of decolonization in this unprecedented historical situation reveals much about the general processes occurring elsewhere on the African continent."

Author : Audrey Jane Roy
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 9780612681866

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"The inclusion of self-determination in the two international human rights covenants and in the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Peoples evidence self-determination's place in the language of international human rights at the United Nations. Though these documents declare that 'all peoples have the right of self-determination, ' a closer look at the history of self-determination at the UN and its relationship to decolonization illustrates how member states of the United Nations have carefully excluded indigenous peoples from being counted within the seemingly all-embracing language of 'all peoples.' The study is divided into two parts. Part I, Chapter 1 examines United Nations dialogue surrounding self-determination and decolonization and reveals the definitions accepted by that international body. Chapter 2 presents academic understandings of both the subject and content of self-determination and concludes by offering alternatives that make the right of self-determination accessible to all peoples. Chapter 3 highlights the distinguishing historical context of indigenous claims to self-determination and re-conceptualizes the frequently misunderstood terms 'nation' and 'state' as required by the status of indigenous peoples as sovereign nations. Part II applies ideas developed in Part I to the Canadian context. Chapter 4 reveals how the tenants underlying Crown policy perpetuate the colonial relationship implemented by the first settlers and how the Canadian legal system helps to legitimize the Crown's assumption of sovereignty and the continuing denial of indigenous nationhood. Chapter 5 describes how federalism can offer a unique opportunity to reconfigure the Canadian state and decolonize the relationship between the Crown and indigenous peoples"--Leaf ii.

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780889369634

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Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Author : Dane Keith Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199340498

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Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This work demonstrates that this process involved considerable violence and instability.

Author : Jan C. Jansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0691192766

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The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history. Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike. Concise and authoritative, Decolonization is the essential introduction to this momentous chapter in history, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today. --

Author : Eva-Maria Muschik
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 023155351X

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Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the world were still under imperial control. Building States investigates how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s—and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik argues that the UN played a key role in the global proliferation and reinvention of the nation-state in the postwar era, as newly independent states came to rely on international assistance. Drawing on previously untapped primary sources, she traces how UN personnel—usually in close consultation with Western officials—sought to manage decolonization peacefully through international development assistance. Examining initiatives in Libya, Somaliland, Bolivia, the Congo, and New York, Muschik shows how the UN pioneered a new understanding and practice of state building, presented as a technical challenge for international experts rather than a political process. UN officials increasingly took on public-policy functions, despite the organization’s mandate not to interfere in the domestic affairs of its member states. These initiatives, Muschik suggests, had lasting effects on international development practice, peacekeeping, and post-conflict territorial administration. Casting new light on how international organizations became major players in the governance of developing countries, Building States has significant implications for the histories of decolonization, the Cold War, and international development.

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0198713193

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