In world politics, power relations take many forms: violent, creative, and disciplinary. International relations theory has neglected these differences. This dissertation contributes to explaining how power operates in different modes by studying the monitoring power manifest in…
"66" Result
Sort By:
The United Nations was established in 1945 with its primary tasks to promote international peace and security. A foundational premise of the new organization was that the world's most powerful nations would cooperate to carry out these goals. Instead, the post-war international …
This dissertation studies a vital yet neglected aspect of multilateral economic sanctions: how are sanctions to be monitored once imposed? The bulk of the academic and policy literature on sanctions assesses sanctions effectiveness without evaluating efforts at monitoring their …
This dissertation analyses the role of international organisations in launching contemporary peace enforcement operations. Virtually all peace enforcement operations are launched from within the framework of a formal international organisation. This dissertation argues that lead…
This essay examines the efforts to design and implement international organizations dedicated to the pursuit and maintenance of peace and security in the twentieth century and the role played by the United States in these efforts. The League of Nations' first attempts at securin…
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 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…
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 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 …
Has the collective security system envisioned in the creation of the League of Nations and the United Nations finally been put to use in the Persian Gulf war? The literature on collective security reflects the optimism of the formation of both the League and the United Nations, …
This dissertation documents the consequences for women's activism when the United Nations acted as government in East Timor between October 1999 and May 2002. After 25 years of Indonesian rule, the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly to become an independent State on 30 August 19…
In the aftermath of the failure to come to a diplomatic resolution regarding Iraq in 2003, and the subsequent military strike by the United States (U.S.) and its allies without United Nations (UN) approval, the usefulness and role of international diplomatic institutions such as…
Confronted with bloody civil conflict, the UN, if it acts, often defaults to imposing an arms embargo. Yet while arms embargoes have been increasingly imposed since the end of the Cold War, there remains significant disagreement about the impact and effectiveness of arms embargo…
This paper examines which group is more effective at performing peacekeeping missions in post-Cold War Africa - the United Nations or separate great powers not operating under UN control. It considers four cases: Somalia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sier…
This study explores the stalemate in the U.N.-led Negotiations between Morocco and the Frente POLISARIO on the status of the "Western Sahara" territory. It suggests that the U.N., as a host and mediator of these rounds, has had a significant impact on the process and that it sha…