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Title International security and peacebuilding : Africa, the Middle East, and Europe / edited by Abu Bakarr Bah
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents Introduction : the conundrums of global liberal governance / Abu Bakarr Bah -- Negotiating narratives : R2P and the conundrum of the monopoly of legitimized use of force / Rebecca Gulowski -- Responsibility to protect : the paradox of international intervention in Africa / Dauda Abubakar -- Dancing boys and the moral dilemmas of military missions : the practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan / Michelle Schut and Eva van Baarle -- Managerial capacity in peacekeeping operations : the case of EUFOR / Unsal Sigri, M. Abdulkadir Varoglu, and Ufuk Basar -- Personalized mediations and interventions in the Ivoirian conflict / Amy Niang -- African agency in new humanitarianism and responsible governance / Abu Bakarr Bah -- Regime change : neoliberal state building and its collapse on Iraqi society / Deniz Gokalp
Summary The end of the Cold War was to usher in an era of peace based on flourishing democracies and free market economies worldwide. Instead, new wars, including the war on terrorism, have threatened international, regional, and individual security and sparked a major refugee crisis. This volume of essays on international humanitarian interventions focuses on what interests are promoted through these interventions and how efforts to build liberal democracies are carried out in failing states. Focusing on Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, an international group of contributors shows that best practices of protection and international state-building have not been applied uniformly. Together the essays provide a theoretical and empirical critique of global liberal governance and, as they note challenges to regional and international cooperation, they reveal that global liberal governance may threaten fragile governments and endanger human security at all levels
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2017)
Subject Security, International -- Case studies
Peace-building -- Case studies
Responsibility to protect (International law) -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Peace-building
Responsibility to protect (International law)
Security, International
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Bah, Abu Bakarr, 1969- editor.
LC no. 2016044068
ISBN 9780253023902
0253023904
0253023769
9780253023766
9780253023841
025302384X