Building States : The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945-1965
Building States examines how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s-and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik traces how UN personnel pioneered a new kind of state b...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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New York : Columbia University Press,
2022
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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| Sujets: | Decolonization Nation-building World politics United Nations-History-20th century Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (390 pages) |
| Résumé: | Building States examines how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s-and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik traces how UN personnel pioneered a new kind of state building in the midst of decolonization. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Managing the World -- 1. The UN and the Colonial World: International Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories -- 2. How to Build a State?: The UN in Libya -- 3. If Ten Years Suffice for Somaliland . . . -- 4. Moving Beyond Advice: Pioneering Administrative Assistance in Bolivia -- 5. Hammarskjöld, Decolonization, and the Proposal for an International Administrative Service -- 6. State-Building Meets Peacekeeping: UN Civilian Operations in the Congo Crisis, 1960-1964 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (390 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780231553513 023155351X |