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UN Peacekeeping Myth and Reality: Betrayal in Palestine and Its Legacy (Middle East) – 2 19 Aug 2011 | 02:58 pm
EGYPT: TWO UNITED NATIONS EMERGENCY FORCES AND THREE WARS In the summer of 1956, as Palestinian raids on Israeli-held territories and Israeli retaliatory attacks became increasingly frequent, the ...
UN Peacekeeping Myth and Reality: Betrayal in Palestine and Its Legacy (Middle East) – 1 18 Aug 2011 | 02:56 pm
In 1945 the United Nations proudly pronounced itself determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Its Charter equipped it with an arsenal of tools needed to pursue such a loft...
UN Peacekeeping Myth and Reality: Introduction 17 Aug 2011 | 02:53 pm
Soldiers from all corners of the world congregate under the Blue Flag in god-forsaken places they have difficulty of finding on a map. What brings together young men from Zimbabwe and France, from ...
UN Peacekeeping Myth and Reality: Foreword 16 Aug 2011 | 02:53 pm
(Translated from Polish by Ireneusz Adach) The history of mankind is branded with armed conflicts of greater or lesser cruelty. In the twentieth century, which was no exception, violent conflagrat...
UN Peacekeeping Myth and Reality 15 Aug 2011 | 02:47 pm
Foreword Introduction 1. Script 2. Main Actors 3. Betrayal in Palestine and Its Legacy (Middle East) 4. Stumbling into War (The Congo) 5. Mission Accomplished (Namibia) 6. The Failed Authori...
Why Nations Go to War: Learning from History 13 Aug 2011 | 08:48 am
If we are to seek understanding from history’s vast tapestry, we must also pay attention to its “might-have-beens.” These “might-have-beens” are not just ghostly echoes; in some instances, they are ob...
Why Nations Go to War: Heart of Darkness: Rwanda and Darfur 12 Aug 2011 | 08:46 am
Ours is still a far from peaceful world. September 11, 2001, is embedded in the collective memory of our generation, and George W. Bush’s war with Iraq will echo through history for decades. But there...
Why Nations Go to War: The Determinants of War 11 Aug 2011 | 08:46 pm
The first general theme that compels attention is that no nation that began a major war in the twentieth century emerged a winner. Austria-Hungary and Germany, which precipitated World War I, went dow...
Why Nations Go to War 10 Aug 2011 | 08:45 am
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart One must imagine Sisyphus happy. (ALBERT CAMUS, “THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS”) “If you look too deeply into the abyss,” said Nietzsche,...
Why Nations Go to War: Preface 9 Aug 2011 | 08:43 am
The twenty-first century brought with it two new kinds of war: the horrendous events of September 11, 2001, which precipitated an invasion of Afghanistan but failed to find the elusive perpetrator of ...
