Selective responsibility in the United Nations : colonial histories and critical inquiry /: colonial histories and critical inquiry. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katy Harsant.
• Authors: Harsant, Katy
• Contents: Acknowledgements Abbreviations <span style="font-weight:bold;">Introduction: Selective Responsibility and Reading Through History Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism and Sovereignty Reading Through History Structure of the Book <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 1 - From Sovereignty to Sovereign Equality A History of the United Nations Academic Narratives of the United Nations Sovereignty and International Law Sovereignty and the League of Nations From Sovereignty to Sovereign Equality Sovereign Equality and Trusteeship A Colonial History of the United Nations <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 2 - Resistance to Imperialism and the Two Leagues President Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference The League of Nations, Self-Determination and the Mandate System The League Against Imperialism Universalism and Internationalism <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 3 - The United Nations and Colonialism: Re-Narrating San Francisco The Colonial Question at San Francisco Anti-Colonialism at San Francisco Permanent Membership and Postcolonial Privilege Power vs. Responsibility Sacrificing Sovereignty From Mandates to Trusteeship <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 4 - The Rise of Asia-Africa and Discourses of Development Discourses of Development The Bandung Conference Bandung and the Cold War The Power of Bandung <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 5 - After Bandung: Independence and Non-Alignment The United Nations, Decolonisation and Independence The Non-Aligned Movement The Group of 77 Bandung and the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership After Bandung <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter 6 - From Non-Intervention to R2P Non-Intervention After the Second World War Power Politics in the Cold War Period Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the 1990s ICISS and the Focus on Responsibility Neocolonialism and Selective Responsibility Conclusion Selective Responsibility International Relations, History and Eurocentrism The United Nations in 2022 Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 341.2309; Sovereignty; Postcolonialism; Eurocentrism; Administrative responsibility; Intervention (International law); Security, International; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786610300
• Related ISBNs: 9781786610287
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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