The United Nations organization : (in)securing global peace & security / Tatah Mentan.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables, Pictures, and Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- The Global Peace and Security System -- Right to Peace and Security -- Role of the United Nations -- Chapter One -- The UN System and Primacy of Global Peace and Security -- Overview -- Introduction -- Facing the Past: The League of Nations and the United Nations -- The Growth of a System -- What Is the United Nations? -- Birth of the United Nations -- Conflict Prevention -- Women and Children in Conflict -- Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Another Failed UN Mission -- The UN in the Post-Cold War Period -- A New International Age? -- Rule of Law and Global Peace and Security -- Failure of the International Peace and Security System -- Regional Cooperation: Conflict Prevention and Security through Interdependence -- Experiences of the Recent Past -- The Challenges for the Countries of Eastern Europe -- The Challenge Ahead -- References -- Chapter Two -- The UNO and Plaguing Conflicts, Wars, and Terrorism -- Overview -- Introduction -- Some Things to know about the State of Conflict in the World Today

1. The world is becoming less peaceful -- 2. The nature of conflict is changing -- 3. Violence costs the world vast amounts of money -- 4. 1% of the world's population is now displaced or refugees -- References -- Chapter Three -- The UN And Bloody Law: International Law as Primitive Accumulation -- Overview -- Dissecting the Dynamics of Primitive Accumulation -- International Law in Historical Perspective -- Role of Capital in International Law -- Meddling is routine -- U.S. Imperial Wars Unleash Long-Term International Violenceand Chaos -- Disregarding international law

International law and the "Bush Doctrine" -- The Centrality of Imperial Law -- The Uses of Imperial Law -- The Veto -- References -- Chapter Four -Ungolden UN Charter Silence on Intra-And-Non-State Armed Conflicts -- Overview -- Introduction -- Some Intractable Intra-state Armed Conflicts -- Transnational Organized Crime: A Growing Threat to National and International Peace and Security -- Penetration of State Institutions, Corruption, and Threats to Governance -- Threats to the Economy, U.S. Competitiveness, and Strategic Markets -- Scope of the Challenge to Global Peace and Security

Looking Ahead -- References -- Chapter Five -- Sovereignty, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention for Global Peace and Security -- Overview -- Introduction: Clash between Human Rights Agenda Vs. National Sovereignty -- Irreconcilable Tensions between State Sovereignty and Human Rights -- I. The Normative Foundations of Justice and the Basis of International Law -- II. International Laws Concerning Self-determination -- The Evolution of Humanitarian Intervention -- Humanitarian Intervention Proponents -- Humanitarian Intervention Opponents -- Humanitarian Intervention Sceptics -- New Trends

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