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This book examines interventions in East Timor, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kosovo. The chapters explore and question UN debates about the doctrine of the responsibility to protect, both before and after its adoption in 2005, contrast state attitudes to international military intervention and analyse what takes place after intervention. It also discusses the ability of the Security Council to access reliable information and credible and transparent p...

The contributors to this book describe, discuss, and evaluate the normative reframing Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty) brings about, taking you on a journey through its genesis and negotiation history and the shape of the emerging global nuclear order.

The contributors to this book describe, discuss, and evaluate the normative reframing Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty) brings about, taking you on a journey through its genesis and negotiation history and the shape of the emerging global nuclear order.

This volume is a collection of the key writings of Professor Ramesh Thakur on norms and laws regulating the international use of force. The adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle by world leaders assembled at the UN summit in 2005 is widely acknowledged to represent one of the great normative advances in international politics since 1945. The author has been involved in this shift from the dominant norm of non-intervention t...

Examining the efficacy of U.N. peace efforts, International Peacekeeping in Lebanon compares limited peacekeeping through U.N. authority with more coercive means such as the Multinational Force in Lebanon. .

This book provides a timely, thoughtful and wide-ranging study of the issues of nuclear policies, overall strategy, and the value of the Australia, New Zealand and the United States alliance. It also presents alternatives to traditional New Zealand defence policies, neutrality, and nonalignment.

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This volume explores the evolution of United Nations efforts at peacekeeping, particularly since the early 1990s. Peacekeeping has always been one of the most visible symbols of the UN role in international peace and security. Disappointment with the performance of UN peacekeeping operations became symbolic of the UN's failure to emerge from the ashes of the Cold War as a rejuvenated key player in international and, increasingly, internal peac...

This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm.

New Millennium, New Perspectives: The United Nations, Security, and Governance analyzes a number of pressing international challenges relating to security and governance in a policy oriented, forward looking manner. The authors address a number of overarching questions - such as the impact of globalization, key challenges in the short and medium terms, the manner in which national governments and the international community might more broadly ...

The most comprehensive disarmament treaty ever adopted, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), is intended to ensure that chemical weapons will not be developed, produced, stockpiled, used, or transferred. To implement and enforce the CWC and verify the ongoing elimination of declared chemical weapons production capacity and stockpiles, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspects military and industrial sites in do...

The end of the Cold War and the forceful response to Iraq's aggression created expectations that the UN would change from a marginal into a centre player in world affairs. These hopes were seemingly dashed in Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Has the United Nations abdicated its moral duty as the custodian of our hopes for a better world? In this book, foreign ministers, generals, ambassadors, and scholars provide sober assessments of how the United...

The Government and Politics of India provides a clear and concise account of the contemporary Indian political system. It explains the historical legacies that have shaped the structures of Indian government and influenced the patterns of its politics. It describes the network of Indian institutions at federal and provincial level. It conveys a sense of where power is located, how it is used and the constraints on its exercise. Special attenti...

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The book provides detailed information on residential status, relative abundance, conservation status etc. of eight species of vultures recorded in Kangra valley of Himachal Pradesh. It contains ecological information on 19 breeding sites of Indian White-backed Vulture. Information on socio-cultural practices of disposal of carcasses and accessibility of Diclofenac to the vultures has also been presented. Most of the breeding sites of Indian W...

Written by an eminent scholar and former UN Assistant Secretary-General, this book describes the transformations in United Nations policies from collective security in 1945 to the Responsibility to Protect in 2015, and explains the importance of embedding protection against humanitarian atrocities in the UN-centred international rule of law.

Written by an eminent scholar and former UN Assistant Secretary-General, this book describes the transformations in United Nations policies from collective security in 1945 to the Responsibility to Protect in 2015, and explains the importance of embedding protection against humanitarian atrocities in the UN-centred international rule of law.