This research makes use of a Constructivist approach to norm development, in particular the concept of the norm life cycle, to assess the emergence and development of the responsibility to protect as a norm in international society in relation to the conduct of interventions on …
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Global demand for peacekeeping is growing, especially in Africa. The United Nations has traditionally been at the forefront of developing peacekeeping theory and practice, and remains the primary operational agency for peacekeeping in Africa. But increasing emphasis is being pla…
This dissertation studies New York lawyer and women's rights advocate Dorothy Kenyon and her role in an international women's movement between the 1930s and 1950 whose goal was to identify and eliminate legal discriminations against women. Kenyon was appointed to represent the U…
During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu targeted Tutsi and allies. Interpreting this complex event requires examining the late 1950s. Analyzing Tutsi and Hutu in central Rwanda in 1957 improves understanding of political and social context preceding the genocide. This study rejects th…
Since the resurgence of Rakhine State's conflict in 2017, and the resulting 750,000 refugees, Myanmar has received increased scrutiny by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However, some of Myanmar's ethnic conflicts have been continuous since independence in 1948, and t…
Since the end of the Cold War, the United Nations has expanded its peacekeeping operations in response to the large number of civil conflicts around the world. Many of these recent missions are “multidimensional,” in that they include sizable military, police, refugee, humanitar…
The United States and the international community intervened in a number of internal conflicts throughout the 1990s, generally justifying their actions on humanitarian grounds. In most cases, external military intervention largely halted the fighting and allowed humanitarian ass…
After the Second World War, two states claimed to represent the same nation: “China.” This work examines how the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) competed to represent China and the international consequences of that competition. The CPC’s victory in the C…
This dissertation deals with the international community's response to ethnic and other internal conflict in the post-Cold War period, and its impact on the structure of the international system. In short, this study pursues the question if, as an effective move toward global go…
In the 1990s, there was an explosion of United Nations peacekeeping in internal conflicts. Peacekeeping was thought to facilitate conflict resolution (peacemaking) by ending armed conflict. However, some scholars and practitioners have hypothesized that good peacekeeping hinders…
This study identifies and analyzes the key conditions for and causes of NATO's success rate in conducting multinational military peace-enforcement interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. As its baseline it uses the UNPROFOR operation in Bosnia. Subsequently, it evaluates the IFOR/SF…
By adopting the qualitative mode of analyses as research methodology, this study examines the problems associated with the United Nations - Nigeria relations in the maintenance of domestic and international peace and security. It is a study in post-coloniality whose primary obje…
This dissertation compares Cold War peacekeeping missions with missions in the Post Cold War era, identifying reasons for the success of the former and the failure of the latter. The author dissects the basic components of Classical Peacekeeping (Cold War era) and states that th…
This dissertation addresses the question: why has United Nations peacekeeping been more successful in management of some internal conflicts than others? Success is defined with regard to limiting violence, reducing human suffering, preventing conflict from spreading and fulfilli…
This thesis investigates the role of the United Nations in the area of peace enforcement. It studies the UN system for the maintenance of international peace and security in the face of threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression. It assesses the Security …
This case study examines a whole-system method used in a development setting: a November 1998 Future Search conference for the UN system in Pakistan, with a multicultural mix of over 60 participants from different UN, government, donor and civil society organizations. The resear…
The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Health Organization (WHO) are all specialized agencies of the United Nations founded during or immediately after World War II, and each sought to advance economic development in the Third World. The staff…
The purpose of this project is to analyze what underlying issues exist in the implementation of the norm responsibility to protect and its inconsistent application across a series of humanitarian crises throughout the years. For this project, the method of research being conduct…