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Making international institutions work: the politics of performance
In: International affairs, Volume 100, Issue 5, p. 2247-2248
ISSN: 1468-2346
Sustainable peace in Northeast AsiaYong-Shik Lee, Sustainable peace in Northeast Asia , London and New York, Anthem Press, 2023, ISBN 9781839983764 (hbk), 324 pp: Yong-Shik Lee, Anthem Press, 2023, ISBN 9781839983764 (hbk), 324 pp
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, p. 1-3
ISSN: 1474-449X
Peacebuilding, peacekeeping, and the 'balance of bureaucratic power' in Kofi Annan's Secretariat: a micro-history of two United Nations departments
In: Peacebuilding, p. 1-23
ISSN: 2164-7267
The United Nations: policy and practice
In: International affairs, Volume 100, Issue 2, p. 851-852
ISSN: 1468-2346
'The hand that holds the pen': Boutros Boutros-Ghali, peacekeeping, and American influence over the United Nations Secretariat in the early 1990s
In: International peacekeeping
ISSN: 1743-906X
This article reviews the creative ways in which the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, used the UN Secretariat to achieve his goals, as well as the obstacles he faced in doing so. Using new sources – including confidential UN memos, elite interviews, and private archives – the paper suggests that, in the context of peacekeeping, the former Secretary-General engaged in parallel processes of 'politicization' and 'depoliticization': on the one hand he minimised, avoided and concealed the substantive dimensions of certain decisions, units and issues with the aim of marginalising those departments and officials that he saw as too close to the United States, while on the other he empowered those bureaucratic units which he felt he could more easily control. Specifically, by bestowing upon the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) a sweeping mandate while painting the role of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) as merely 'operational', Boutros-Ghali used 'technicization' as a means to strengthen the Secretary-General's office.
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The Twilight of Liberal Peacebuilding? Peacebuilding in the United Nations: Coming into Life , by Fernando Cavalcante, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 334 pp., £79.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9783030038632 A Requiem for Peacebuilding? edited by Jorg Ku...
In: International peacekeeping, Volume 31, Issue 3, p. 410-414
ISSN: 1743-906X
'The Hand that Holds the Pen': Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Peacekeeping, and American Influence Over the United Nations Secretariat in the Early 1990s
In: International peacekeeping, Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 87-113
ISSN: 1743-906X
The peacekeeping failure in South Sudan: the UN, bias and the peacekeeper's mind
In: International affairs, Volume 99, Issue 4, p. 1811-1812
ISSN: 1468-2346
Rethinking Sino-Japanese alienation: history problems and historical opportunities
In: International affairs, Volume 97, Issue 5, p. 1656-1658
ISSN: 1468-2346
Sovereignty and the new executive authority: ethics, national security, and the rule of law
In: International affairs, Volume 96, Issue 4, p. 1094-1096
ISSN: 1468-2346
Power in peacekeeping
In: International affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, p. 817-819
ISSN: 1468-2346
African dominion: A new history of empire in early and medieval west Africa; African kings and black slaves: sovereignty and dispossession in the early modern Atlantic; Caravans of gold, fragments in time: art, culture, and exchange across medieval Saharan Africa
In: International affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, p. 549-551
ISSN: 1468-2346
The final act: the Helsinki Accords and the transformation of the Cold War
In: International affairs, Volume 96, Issue 1, p. 225-226
ISSN: 1468-2346
The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council: a dynamic relationship; The working world of international organizations: authority, capacity, legitimacy
In: International affairs, Volume 95, Issue 3, p. 717-718
ISSN: 1468-2346