The United Nations and Human Security

238 Pages·2001·0.738 MB·English

by  Edward Newman, Oliver P. Richmond (eds.)

The United Nations and Human Security
Also by Edward Newman
THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE NEW ERA:
A Global Peace and Security Mandate?
NEW MILLENNIUM, NEW PERSPECTIVES: The United Nations, Security and
Governance (co-editor)
THE CHANGING NATURE OF DEMOCRACY (co-editor)
Also by Oliver P. Richmond
MEDIATING IN CYPRUS: The Cypriot Communities and the UN
THE WORK OF THE UN IN CYPRUS (co-editor)
The United Nations
and Human Security
Edited by
Edward Newman
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Oliver P. Richmond
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Oliver P.Richmond 2001
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Contents
The Contributors vii
Part I: International Institutionalism – Considerations
and Contentions
Introduction: Beyond Peacekeeping? 3
Edward Newman and Oliver P. Richmond
1 Human Security and Preventive Action Strategies 15
John G. Cockell
2 The Limits of UN Multidimensional Peace Operations 31
Oliver P. Richmond
3 (Re)building Political Society: the UN and Democratization 47
Edward Newman
4 Refugees, Human Rights and the Issue of Human Security 65
Gary G. Troeller
Part II: The UN and the Liberal Ethic – Normative
Considerations
5 Community, Solidarity and Late-Westphalian
International Relations 83
Paul Bacon
6 Echoes of the Mission Civilisatrice: Peacekeeping in
the Post-Cold War Era 100
Roland Paris
Part III: Mediating International Security:
Beyond Westphalia?
7 International Peace and Security and International
Criminal Justice 121
Rachel Kerr
8 Playing with Fire: Humanitarian Intervention Post-Kosovo 137
Albrecht Schnabel
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9 The UN and Regional Organizations 151
Mary M. McKenzie
10 UN Finances: What are the Costs and Who Pays the Bills? 168
Anthony L. McDermott
11 Elections and ‘Protectorate Democracy’ in
South-East Europe 190
Michael Pugh
12 The UN, Democratic Governance and Post-Conflict
Reconstruction: Consolidating Peace in Central America 208
Carlos Santiso
Index 229
The Contributors
Paul Baconwas educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where
he received his Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees. He has taught
at Kent University and Chiba University and is presently Lecturer in
International Relations at Shumei University. His research interests
lie in international organization, multilateral governance, and global
ethics.He is Assistant Editor of International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,
a journal published by Oxford University Press, and co-editor of
Japanese-European Relations in Global Perspective (2000).
John G. Cockell is currently an Associate in the Conflict Analysis and
Development Unit (CADU) of the London School of Economics and
Political Science, and is also a consultant on early warning and conflict
prevention to the UN Department of Political Affairs and the UN
Staff College. Formerly a policy analyst at the Canadian Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Cockell has contributed
Canadian position chapters and analysis for multilateral processes
such as G7 summits, the UN, and the OECD Development Assistance
Committee.
Rachel Kerr is a doctoral candidate in the Department of War Studies,
King’s College, London. Her PhD thesis is ‘The International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Law, Diplomacy and Politics’. She
previously studied international history and politics at the University
of Leeds, and received an MA in War Studies from King’s College,
London.
Anthony L. McDermott was a senior researcher at the International
Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), and co-editor of Security Dialogue,
from 1997 until 2000. For twenty years he worked for the Financial
Times in the foreign department dealing mainly with the Middle East,
including periods abroad based in Cairo and Geneva. He has written
extensively in international journals on the Middle East and the UN
system, and his recent publications have included The New Politics of
Financing the UN (Palgrave, 2000).
Mary M. McKenzie received her PhD in political science from the
University of California at Santa Barbara and is Assistant Professor in
Political Science at Grossmont College. Dr McKenzie has written several
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papers and articles dealing with the transatlantic relationship and with
German foreign policy. She has received numerous fellowships, includ-
ing a Fulbright Senior scholarship in 1998, and was a Research Fellow
in European Peace and Security at the Peace Research Institute in
Frankfurt, 1993–4.
Edward Newman is a Programme Associate in the Peace and Gover-
nance Programme of the United Nations University. He received his
PhD from Kent University and has lectured at Shumei University and
Aoyama Gakuin University, both in Japan. His publications include The
UN Secretary-General from the Cold War to the New Era: a Global Peace
and Security Mandate? (Macmillan – now Palgrave, 1998), The Changing
Nature of Democracy (co-edited, 1998), and New Millennium, New Per-
spectives: the UN, Security and Governance (co-edited, 2000).
Roland Paris is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado,
and recently completed his PhD dissertation at Yale University on the
subject of post-conflict peacebuilding. He is particularly interested in
the ‘liberal’ ethos of these missions, and his recent publications include
a Fall 1997 International Securityarticle on ‘Peacebuilding and the Limits
of Liberal Internationalism’.
Michael Pughis Director of the International Studies Research Centre,
University of Plymouth, UK, and editor of the journal International
Peacekeeping(London). In 1994–5 he was Economic and Social Research
Council Senior Research Fellow. He currently directs the Plymouth
Peacebuilding Project that is examining peacebuilding in Croatia and
Bosnia, and has also conducted research on maritime security issues.
Recent publications include Regeneration of War-Torn Societies (2000) and
The UN, Peace and Force (1997).
Oliver Richmond is a lecturer in the Department of IR, University of
St Andrews, UK. His book Mediating in Cyprus was published by Frank
Cass in 1998 and he has published several articles on ethnic conflict,
the UN, the Cyprus problem, and approaches to peacemaking. A co-
edited book entitled The Work of the UN in Cyprus:Promoting Peace and
Development (Palgrave) was published in 2001. A research monograph
entitledMaintaining Order, Making Peace will also be published in 2001.
He can be contacted on [email protected]
Carlos Santiso is currently a Senior Programme Officer at the Interna-
tional Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International
IDEA), focusing on democracy assistance, good governance and
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international development cooperation. A graduate from the Institut
d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, France, and the School of International
and Public Affairs of Columbia University, Carlos Santiso’s publications
focus on democracy, governance, and international organizations.
Albrecht Schnabel is Academic Programme Officer in the Peace and
Governance Programme of the UNU and specializes in conflict and
security studies. He was educated at the University of Munich, the Uni-
versity of Nevada, and Queen’s University, Canada, where he received
his PhD in Political Studies in 1995. His publications focus on ethnic
conflict, refugee policy, peacekeeping, conflict prevention and manage-
ment, with a regional emphasis on Southeastern Europe and Africa.
Gary G. Troeller is UNHCR Regional Representative for the Baltic and
Nordic Countries, and prior to that was UNHCR Regional Representa-
tive for Japan and the Republic of Korea. Dr Troeller has acted as Adjunct
Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of Interna-
tional Studies, Korea University, and Visiting Lecturer in the College of
International Relations at the National University of Tsukuba, Japan.
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