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On Building Peace: Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations
Michael Von Der Schulenburg
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Description for On Building Peace: Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations
Paperback. Rescuing the Nationstate and Saving the United Nations. Now, 25 years after the end of the Cold War, the global peace order is going through renewed geopolitical changes that are less dramatic than those in 1989 but probably equally important. The post-Cold War Western dominance of global affairs and the singular US superpower status are eroding, making room for a more defuse multi-polar world with many different global and regional players. Post-Cold War hopes that the winning political system of liberal democracy would spread around the world and bring global peace have turned out an illusion. To the contrary, Western efforts and Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: JP. .
peacebuilding, international relations, United Nations, UN peace missions
peacebuilding, international relations, United Nations, UN peace missions
Product Details
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789462984271
SKU
V9789462984271
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About Michael Von Der Schulenburg
Michael von der Schulenburg escaped communist rule, studied in Berlin, London and Paris and worked for the United Nations, and shortly the OSCE, including as UN Assistant Secretary-General, in many of the world's trouble spots, such as in Haiti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Balkan, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Sahel. Many issues that are raised in On Building ... Read more
Reviews for On Building Peace: Rescuing the Nation-State and Saving the United Nations
A call for radical reform by Hans Dembowski for D+C (Development and Cooperation. Read the article in English https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/former-un-official-wants-international-community-strike-grand-bargain-how-deal-civil-strife >here, and in German https://www.dandc.eu/de/article/aus-sicht-eines-ehemaligen-un-beamten-braucht-die-weltgemeinschaft-ein-abkommen-ueber-dene >here.[-][-] [-][-] Fading western doctrines by Hans Dembowski for D+C (Development and Cooperation). Read the article in English https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/german-expert-argues-west-has-failed-libya-and-iraq >here, and in German https://www.dandc.eu/de/article/deutscher-experte-kritisiert-westliches-versagen-libyen-und-irak >here.[-][-] [-][-]Listen ... Read more