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Author Mays, Terry M

Title Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping / Terry M. Mays
Edition 3rd ed
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xliv, 467 p., [16] p. of plates )
Series Historical dictionaries of international organizations ; no. 29
Historical dictionaries of international organizations series ; no. 29.
Contents Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Appendix: Examples of Peacekeeping Mandates; Bibliography; About the Author
Summary As long as there have been wars, there have been peace processes to settle them. In the 12th century BC, the Egyptians and Hittites concluded one of the earliest peace treaties still in existence. Peacekeeping as understood as a modern concept emerged outof the League of Nations after World War I. The League fielded many international military operations that were essentially deployments by the victorious Allied powers to oversee local plebiscites. Peacekeeping operations have evolved to become essentialelements in most international attempts to guide belligerents through a peace process. Peac
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Subject United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces -- History -- Dictionaries
SUBJECT United Nations fast
Subject Peacekeeping forces -- History -- Dictionaries
Multinational armed forces -- History -- Dictionaries
LAW -- International.
Multinational armed forces
Peacekeeping forces
Genre/Form Dictionaries
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020740398
ISBN 9780810875166
0810875160