Author: Kevin A. Spooner
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858958
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenge cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper.
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64
Author: Kevin A. Spooner
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858958
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenge cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858958
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenge cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper.
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960-1964
Author: Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960-1964: Summary and conclusions
Author: Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Canada, the Congo Crisis, and United Nations Peacekeeping, 1960-1964 [microform]
Author: Kevin A. (Kevin Alexander) Spooner
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN: 9780612719491
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN: 9780612719491
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960-1964: Appendices
Author: Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960-1964: A Congo chronology, 1960-1964
Author: Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The United Nations in the Congo from 1960-64: Critical Assessment of a Tragic Intervention
Author: Fidelis Etah Ewane
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640604903
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, language: English, abstract: The role of the United Nations and the West in the Congo between 1960 and 1964 can only be characterised as a tragedy. We are still witnessing the consequences of the myopic and misguided policies that were pursued by UN officials and western leaders at the time. This paper elucidates the story of how Lumumba was first betrayed and then murdered. It analyses how historians and political scientists have treated the conflict and suggests ways in which scholars from the two disciplines can cooperate better and learn from one another. The paper reverts to international relations theories that adequately explain what happened between 1960 and 1964.This essay critically examines why UN intervention in the Congo failed to achieve the intended peace that constituted the rationale behind its intervention. The essay will argue that perceptions and misperceptions among UN members exacerbated a rift between the UN and the realities of the conflict. And the Cold War ideology at the time and Belgium's support for Moise Tshombe to secede Katanga because of their hatred for Patrice Lumumba, greatly hampered UN mission as a peace machinery.
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640604903
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, language: English, abstract: The role of the United Nations and the West in the Congo between 1960 and 1964 can only be characterised as a tragedy. We are still witnessing the consequences of the myopic and misguided policies that were pursued by UN officials and western leaders at the time. This paper elucidates the story of how Lumumba was first betrayed and then murdered. It analyses how historians and political scientists have treated the conflict and suggests ways in which scholars from the two disciplines can cooperate better and learn from one another. The paper reverts to international relations theories that adequately explain what happened between 1960 and 1964.This essay critically examines why UN intervention in the Congo failed to achieve the intended peace that constituted the rationale behind its intervention. The essay will argue that perceptions and misperceptions among UN members exacerbated a rift between the UN and the realities of the conflict. And the Cold War ideology at the time and Belgium's support for Moise Tshombe to secede Katanga because of their hatred for Patrice Lumumba, greatly hampered UN mission as a peace machinery.
The United Nations Operation in the Congo, 1960-1964
Author: Georges Abi-Saab
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"This book ... attempts to trace the role of law in influencing the decisions taken in a situation of appalling complexity.""--Back cover.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"This book ... attempts to trace the role of law in influencing the decisions taken in a situation of appalling complexity.""--Back cover.
American Foreign Policy in the Congo 1960-1964
Author: Stephen R. Weissman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150174383X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This book offers a forthright and discerning evaluation of American foreign policy and its impact on the political system of an important Third World country. After assessing the situation in the Congo when independence was achieved in 1960, Mr. Weissman compares the policies of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. He throws new light on such questions as the role of the United States in the overthrow of Patrice Lumumba, the UN action in Katanga, and the repression of the 1964 rebellions. Weighing various influences—economic, administrative, congressional, international—on U.S. policy, he concludes that the major factor was ideological. American actions, he maintains, were based on certain mistaken assumptions that were held in common by key American decision-makers whose backgrounds and training blinded them to the realities of Congolese life. Based on extensive research, including interviews with nearly all important figures who contributed to the making of American policy, this book effectively challenges some fashionable interpretations of the causes and results of American intervention in the Third World.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150174383X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This book offers a forthright and discerning evaluation of American foreign policy and its impact on the political system of an important Third World country. After assessing the situation in the Congo when independence was achieved in 1960, Mr. Weissman compares the policies of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. He throws new light on such questions as the role of the United States in the overthrow of Patrice Lumumba, the UN action in Katanga, and the repression of the 1964 rebellions. Weighing various influences—economic, administrative, congressional, international—on U.S. policy, he concludes that the major factor was ideological. American actions, he maintains, were based on certain mistaken assumptions that were held in common by key American decision-makers whose backgrounds and training blinded them to the realities of Congolese life. Based on extensive research, including interviews with nearly all important figures who contributed to the making of American policy, this book effectively challenges some fashionable interpretations of the causes and results of American intervention in the Third World.
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960-1964: Full text
Author: Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description