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The United Nations Organization [electronic resource] (In)Securing Global Peace and Security / Tatah Mentan

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Mentan, Tatah
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
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1 online resource (xxviii, 476 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Project Muse and Project Muse
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Contents
The UN system and primacy of global peace and security -- The UNO and plaguing conflicts, wars, and terrorism -- The un and bloody law : international law as primitive accumulation -- (Un)golden UN Charter silence on intra-and-non-state armed conflicts -- Sovereignty, human rights and humanitarian intervention for global peace and security -- Territorial integrity of UN member states and self-determination -- The irony of rule of law in the current political jungle -- The African Union (AU) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) -- Conclusion and way forward.
Summary
Saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war was the main motivation for creating the United Nations. Given the ongoing conflicts, wars and terrorist attacks today one is forced to ask: Is there Hope for International Peace and Security? Where have the safeguards gone to? Has the United Nations become powerless in the face of absence of the "safeguards"? In this book, Professor Tatah Mentan examines the transformation in UN peace and security operations, analysing its changing role and structure. Tatah Mentan argues that the enemy of peace and security in the global system is the dictatorship of predatory bailed out monopoly capitalism that tells us that building war ships is more important than building alternate energy infrastructure. The real enemies are therefore the publicly bailed-out monopolies, Big Media, Big Pharma, Big Oil, the Military Industrial Complex, etc. that deny the truth about conflicts and insecurity. As he emphasises, the enemies are those who refuse to think critically, not being intellectually curious, and accepting the supremacist, fascist, and misgovernance that is reducing the world collectively to being cogs in a diabolical machine of neoliberal global capitalism.
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9789956551644
9956551643
9789956551637 (print)
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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