
Dangerous Diplomacy Reassesses The Role Of The Un Secretariat During The Rwandan Genocide. With The Help Of New Sources, Including The Personal Diaries And Private Papers Of The Late Sir Marrack Goulding—an Under-secretary-general From 1988 To 1997 And The Second Highest-ranking Un Official During The Genocide—the Book Situates The Rwanda Operation Within The Context Of Bureaucratic And Power-political Friction Existing At Un Headquarters In The Early 1990s. The Book Shows How This Confrontation Led To A Lack Of Coordination Between Key Un Departments On Issues As Diverse As Reconnaissance, Intelligence, And Crisis Management. Yet Dangerous Diplomacy Goes Beyond These Institutional Pathologies And Identifies The Conceptual Origins Of The Rwanda Failure In The Gray Area That Separates Peacebuilding And Peacekeeping. The Difficulty Of Separating These Two Un Functions Explains Why Six Decades After The Birth Of The Un, It Has Still Not Been Possible To Demarcate The Precise Roles Of Some Key Un Departments.
This book investigates the institutional failures and bureaucratic friction within the United Nations Secretariat that contributed to the ineffective response during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Herman T. Salton utilizes previously unpublished primary sources, specifically the private papers and diaries of Sir Marrack Goulding, to analyze the internal power dynamics of the UN during the 1990s. The author argues that the failure in Rwanda was not merely a result of operational oversight but stemmed from deep-seated conceptual confusion regarding the boundaries between peacekeeping and peacebuilding functions.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts and scholars of international relations recognize this work as a significant contribution to the study of UN institutional history. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the value of the primary source material in clarifying the complexities of UN administrative failures.
Page Count:
264
Publication Date:
2017-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0191053317
ISBN-13:
9780191053313
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