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United Nations Preventive Deployment in Macedonia
A Critical Security Studies Analysis
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | 240 sider | Buy the book on Amazon
To what extent can the United Nations serve as an agent for emancipatory change and transformation? This fundamental question lies at the heart of Eli Stamnes new book. Stamnes applies the principles and percepts of critical Security Studies to offer a new and highly innovative perspective on the UN operation that was deployed in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia between December 1992 and February 1999.
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To what extent can the United Nations serve as an agent for emancipatory change and transformation? This fundamental question lies at the heart of Eli Stamnes new book. Stamnes applies the principles and percepts of Critical Security Studies (CSS) to offer a new and highly innovative perspective on the UN operation that was deployed in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia between December 1992 and February 1999.
Three of the core argumentes of Critical Security Studies are brought to bear, namely:
- the importance the wider security agenda beyound the purelye military
- the importance of 'referent objects' other than the state, and
- a determination to make a concern with human emancipation central to the academic enterprise.
The result is to open up new or underrappreciated dimensions of the UN operation in Macedonia. By developing a framework of analysis based on the ideas of Axel Honneth the book also makes an original and important contribution to the further development of Critical Security Studies itself.
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