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Author Mays, Terry M.

Title Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping / Terry M. Mays.

Publication Info. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2010.

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Edition 3rd ed.
Description 1 online resource (xliv, 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Historical dictionaries of international organizations ; no. 29
Historical dictionaries of international organizations series ; no. 29.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
United Nations.
Peacekeeping forces.
History.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Subject Peacekeeping forces -- History -- Dictionaries.
Multinational armed forces -- History -- Dictionaries.
Multinational armed forces.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: Mays, Terry M. Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping. 3rd ed. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011 9780810868083 (DLC) 2010031385 (OCoLC)651487694
ISBN 9780810875166 (ebook)
0810875160 (ebook)
9780810868083 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0810868083
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