Twisting Arms and Flexing Muscles : Humanitarian Intervention and Peacebuilding in Perspective (Paperback)

Contents: List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction, Natalie Mychajlyszyn; International politics, local conflicts and intervention, S. Neil MacFarlane; Human insecurity and problematic peacekeeping in Africa: beyond 'Blood Diamonds' and HIV/AIDS, Timothy M. Shaw; Short-term gain, long-term pain: an assessment of United Nations chapter VII activities in Central Africa, Robert Astroff and David Meren; Twisting one arm: the effects of biased intervenors, David Carment and Dane Rowlands; Twisting arms or shaking hands? how to put peacekeepers out of business, David Last; Strange bedfellows in humanitarian crises: NGOs and the military, Donna Winslow; Conclusion: dilemmas of peacekeeping at the start of the twenty-first century, Timothy M. Shaw and Natalie Mychajlyszyn; Bibliography; Index.