Beyond the National Interest by Jeanmarc Coicaud

Beyond the National Interest by Jeanmarc Coicaud

Whatever happened to multilateral peacekeeping? This is the central question Jean-Marc Coicaud explores in this penetrating scholarly examination of the period of robust UN-mandated peacekeeping missions in humanitarian crises. The most notable peace operations during this period were undertaken by the three leading NATO powers the United States foremost among them in the immediate post Cold War era. Yet, as Coicaud explains, the international democratic solidarity that unified their multilateral action against a Soviet threat was stretched thin in the post Cold War era, which manifested an entirely new set of threats to international security such as ethnic cleansing and failed states. The three leading Western powers were ill-equipped to handle them effectively in terms of the fundamental political theory and applied political philosophy that generally informed their traditional foreign policies. The book concludes with guidelines for more effective realization of international interests among the Western powers and an afterword on the book s lessons applied to Darfur.

Coicaud, Jean-Marc: - Jean-Marc Coicaud heads the UNU Office at the United Nations in New York. Dr Coicaud was Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali. A former fellow at Harvard University Center for International Affairs and Harvard Law School, Coicaud has held appointments as Cultural Attachü¾Ž–”¼ with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee).

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ISBN 13	9781601270078
ISBN 10	1601270070
Title	Beyond the National Interest
Author	Jeanmarc Coicaud
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	United States Institute of Peace Press
Year published	2007-11-01
Number of pages	338
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