Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations

John Hillen

ISBN 10: 1574882368 / ISBN 13: 9781574882360

Published by Potomac Books, 2000

About this Item

Brassey's. 2000. Washington, DC. Mid-size trade paperback. Second edition (with an additional 8 pages). Book is clean, with a strong spine (and no spine crease), a strong binding, no no tears, no page folds, and no writing. Detailed and comprehensive. Indexed, with 38-page section of rear chapter notes, and 16-page bibliography. 320 pages. Securely packed in a lidded box for protection during shipment.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574882368
• ISBN 13: 9781574882360
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This critically acclaimed book, used in graduate courses at Columbia, Georgetown, and other major universities, is even more relevant now than when first published in 1998. In 2000, with the UN undertaking bold and dangerous new peacekeeping missions to East Timor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, and else-where, UN peacekeepers are in the forefront of international peace and security once again. Based on a strategic analysis - the level at which military operations and politics meet - this updated edition analyses and explains the strategy of the UN military operations conduct-ed since 1948 and clarifies exactly what role the UN and other international actors can hope to play in the global security arena. In an increasingly volatile world, Blue Helmets should be required reading for all students of international affairs.

About the Author

JOHN HILLEN has held prestigious fellowships at institutions such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute, and the Heritage Foundation. In 1999 he was appointed to the study group of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, a bipartisan blue-ribbon federal advisory commission examining the changing security environment in the new century. He lives in the New York City area.