Land of blue helmets: the United Nations and the Arab world 9780520286931, 0520286936, 9780520286948, 0520286944

Table of contents :
The role of the UN Secretary General: a historical assessment / Andrew Gilmour --
Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as seen from a Special Commission / Lori Allen --
On behalf of the United Nations: serving as Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council for Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 / Richard Falk --
The UN statehood bid: Palestine's flirtation with multilateralism / Noura Erakat --
The wrong kind of intervention in Syria / Asli Bali and Aziz Rana --
Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 for Lebanon in the shadow of the "War on Terror" / Karim Makdisi --
The UN Security Council and ghosts of Iraq / Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone --
Iraq: twenty years in the shadow of Chapter VII / Coralie Hindawi --
Libya: a UN resolution and NATO's failure to protect / Jeff Bachman --
Peacekeeping and the Arab world: India's rise and its impact on UN missions in Sudan / Zachariah Mampilly --
The UN human rights game and the Arab region: playing not to lose / Fateh Azzam --
The politics of the sanctions on Iraq and the UN humanitarian exception / Hans Christof von Sponeck --
An agency for the Palestinians / Jalal Al Husseini --
Challenged but steadfast: nine years with Palestinian refugees and UN Relief and Works Agency / Filippo Grandi --
UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Iraq Refugee Operation : resettling refugees, shifting the Middle East humanitarian landscape / Arafat Jamal --
The Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East / Shaden Khallaf --
The Middle East: a mandatory return to humanitarian action / Caroline Abu-Sada --
The UN, the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia, and development in the Arab world / Omar Dahi --
The United Nations and Palestine, liberation and development / Raja Khalidi --
Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western strategies in the context of colonization / Mandy Turner --
The International Labour Organization and workers' rights in the Arab region: the need to return to the basics / Walid Hamdan --
Peacekeeping, development, and counterinsurgency : the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and "Quick Impact Projects" / Susanne Kassem --
The protective shields: civil society organizations and the UN in the Arab region / Kinda Mohamadieh.

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