The people vs. the state [electronic resource] : reflections on UN authority, US power and the responsibility to protect / Ramesh Thakur.

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The people vs. the state: Reflections on UN authority, US power and the Responsibility to Protect; Endorsements; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Kosovo teaches might is right; 2 Kosovo's lessons in racism; 3 The UN at millennium's end; 4 Defining new goals for diplomacy of the twenty-first century; Note; 5 NATO in the Balkans: Between failure and disaster; 6 Peace's high price in Kosovo; 7 The UN's impossible task; 8 Partnerships for humanitarian crises; 9 Vandalism in Afghanistan and no one to stop it; Note; 10 Injustice across borders?; 11 When to intervene: Collective might in service

12 Commission a model of global cooperation13 Help the huddled masses; 14 In the wake of India's tragedy, six reasons for hope; 15 Peacekeeping: Diplomacy's odd couple, the US and the UN; 16 Reforming the UN: An encouraging start under Annan; 17 The ICC: When guilt goes beyond crime; 18 Testing times for the UN; 19 Intervention could bring safeguards in Asia; 20 War vindicates UN stance; 21 End of the old world disorder?; 22 US considers UN approval of force optional; 23 Why India said "no" to US; 24 Chrétien was right: It's time to redefine a "just war"; 25 Reforming the United Nations

26 Celebrating Human Rights Day in an oppressive world27 How the legitimacy of US goals has been undermined by its war on Iraq; 28 The Iraq war in retrospect; 29 Stepping in to protect oppressed people; 30 New jailers, same prison?; 31 Save us from the humanitarians for war; 32 Choosing how to intervene; 33 Did Kosovo illuminate Iraq?; 34 Reshaping the concept of shared responsibility for global security; 35 Freedom, when it suits US; 36 Peer review of human rights; 37 The UN at 60: The place where humanity's divisions meet; 38 Balancing security and rights

39 East Timor: When peace and justice collide40 UN's "Einstein" moment; 41 From national security to human security; 42 Tyrants under the gun: The reduction of impunity; 43 In selecting new UN secretary-general, leadership most important factor; 44 Scapegoating the United Nations would erode its legitimacy; 45 Action must be taken against peacekeeper sexual predators; 46 North-South fault line in global politics; 47 UN is still the world's best hope for peace; 48 A war that was won by not losing, and lost by not winning; 49 Know the goals of military intervention

50 What Annan has contributed to world51 The responsibility to protect revisited; 52 Law versus legitimacy at the United Nations; 53 Unintended consequences of blue berets' actions; 54 Human rights, national security and terrorism; 55 War in our time: The myth of appeasement; 56 Protection and punishment; 57 Operationalizing the "responsibility to protect"; 58 Kosovo's new status will not erase centuries of Serbian history; 59 Let the Asians push aid to Burma; 60 Burma and the responsibility to protect: First, do more good than harm; 61 If you are an Iraqi, how do I kill thee?

62 Post-Cold War era over, but not US primacy

Professor Ramesh Thakur, former Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and UN Assistant Secretary-General, is sometimes described as one of the intellectual godfathers of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Based in our common humanity, R2P is an acceptance of a duty of care by those living in safety towards those trapped in zones of danger. It aims to convert a shocked international conscience into timely and decisive collective action to rescue vulnerable communities so that groups condemned to die in fear can live in hope instead. For more than a decade, Thakur has been deeply

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