Full Description
This book explores whether the United Nations (UN) is relevant in resolving wars when the permanent members of the UN Security Council are directly or indirectly involved. It examines solutions to major wars by applying and testing the UN's vast experience in mediating and deploying peacekeeping, demilitarization, truce monitoring, UN temporary administration, and other tools. While some observers see the organization in deep decline as the Security Council cannot agree to stop the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the expert contributors to this volume make the case that until the start of this century the UN played a critically important role in resolving and freezing major conflicts, and the renewal of the organization could be based on these and other successful precedents. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of global governance, security studies, and the history of the UN in the maintenance of international peace and security. It will also be of great interest to practitioners at the UN and its partner organizations, as well as to diplomats around the world.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction by Tapio Kanninen and John Torpey Chapter 1: Geohistorical Context of the Book: Can the United Nations Remain Relevant in the 2020s and Beyond? by Heikki Patomäki, Tapio Kanninen and Heikki Talvitie Chapter 2: The Future of the United Nations and the Need for New UN Policies, Strategies and Diplomacy by Bertrand G. Ramcharan Chapter 3: The Evolution of Peace Operations: Learning Lessons and Creating Norms by A. Walter Dorn Chapter 4: The Future of UN Peacekeeping: From Practice to Policy by John G. Cockell Chapter 5: "Holding the Centre": The Contribution of United Nations Peacekeeping Where There is "No Peace to Keep" by Salvator Cusimano Chapter 6: Lessons Learned from the History of UN Efforts in Mediation of Smaller and Bigger Conflicts by Bertrand G. Ramcharan Chapter 7: The Origins and Evolution of the Modern State of Israel by Chas Freeman Chapter 8: History of UN Involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Georgios Kostakos and Fotini Zarogianni Chapter 9: Pathway to Peace: The Two-State Solution in the Middle East by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares Chapter 10: Should the United Nations Administer Post-Conflict Gaza? Establishing a UN Trusteeship in Gaza Would be a Mistake by Larry D. Johnson Chapter 11: Lessons in Peace and Justice from the Former Yugoslavia to Ukraine and Beyond by Jessie Barton Hronešová Chapter 12: The International Administration of Occupied Ukrainian Territory as a European and United Nations Diplomatic Option by A. Dirk Moses and Jessie Barton Hronešová Chapter 13: Competing Narratives about the War in Ukraine and the Possibility of Dialogue and De-Escalation by Heikki Patomäki Chapter 14: The Potential Role of the UN in Resolving and De-escalating the Conflict in Ukraine by Tapio Kanninen and Heikki Patomäki Chapter 15: The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court in Managing the Crises in Palestine/Gaza and Ukraine by Roy S. Lee Chapter 16: The Russia-Ukraine War and the UN Charter Provisions for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes by Tapio Kanninen and Georgios Kostakos Conclusions by Tapio Kanninen and John Torpey
