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Examines the Darfur crisis to address wider debates within IR theory including: the 'responsibility to protect', humanitarian intervention, sovereignty, peacekeeping, relationships between the world's great powers, and international mediation.--Publisher.
The book provides a structural analysis of the transformation of UN conflict management, from the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda to Darfur, and moves on to examine the development of Responsibility to Protect and the Peacebuilding Commission.
The world has vowed "Never again" in memory of the 800,000 Rwandans and other groups slaughtered by génocidaires. Yet, ever since the Holocaust, the international community has repeatedly betrayed its pledge, most notably in 1994 with regard to the Rwandan Tutsi, and again ten y…
This study provides a structural analysis of the transformation of UN conflict management, from the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda to Darfur, to the development of Responsibility to Protect and the Peacebuilding Commission.
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the Inter…
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the Inter…
A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age…