Maintaining peace and security?: The United Nations in a changing world

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword by David M. Malone -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Challenges to the UN security mandate -- An evolving UN: adaptation and reform -- Summing up -- Organization of the book -- 2 Origins and Organization of the United Nations -- The United Nations in historical perspective -- The creation of the United Nations -- The Atlantic Charter to Dumbarton Oaks -- The UN today: the principle organs and their tasks -- 3 Sovereignty and Security during the Cold War -- General Assembly expansion -- Security Council stalemate -- The atomic bomb and the IAEA: the creation and competencies of external agencies -- Korea and uniting for peace: developing veto practices -- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Security Council mediation and negotiation -- 4 Sovereignty, Security and Peacekeeping -- Early UN peace operations and the 'invention' of peacekeeping -- 'First Generation' peacekeeping -- 'Second Generation' peacekeeping -- New peacekeeping -- Other UN reforms and evolutions -- 5 Sovereignty and Security in the Age of Intervention -- The situation in Kosovo -- The situation in Iraq -- UN responses to Kosovo and Iraq -- Kosovo and Iraq as benchmarks of new international peace and security -- 6 Reforming the Security Council for Twenty-first-Century Security Security -- High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (HLP) -- HLP Security Council reform and the emergence of the G4 -- The G4 candidacies -- The G4 - for better or for worse? -- After the World Summit: Security Council vision and practicality -- 7 Reforming Human Rights and Human Development for Twenty-first-Century Security -- The origins of human security -- Human rights -- Challenges and criticisms - moving beyond the generality of the Universal Declaration.