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UNGA

United Nations General Assembly

UNGCI

United Nations Guards Contingent in Iraq

UNGOMAP

United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan

UNGOMIP

United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund

UNICOI

United Nations International Commission of Inquiry

UNIFIL

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

UNIIMOG

United Nations Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group

UNIOSIL

United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone

UNIPOM

United Nations India-Pakistan Observer Mission

UNITA

National Union for the Total Independence of Angola

UNITAF

Unified Task Force

UNMEE

United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea

UNMIBH

United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNMIH

United Nations Mission in Haiti

UNMIK

United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

UNMIL

United Nations Mission in Liberia

UNMIS

United Nations Mission in Sudan

UNMISET

United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor

UNMIT

United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor Leste

UNMOGIP

United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan

UNMOP

United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka

UNMOT

United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan

UNMOVIC

United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission

UNOCA

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian and Economic Assistance Programmes in Afghanistan

UNOCI

United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire

UNODC

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UNOGIL

United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon

UNOMIG

United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia

UNOMIL

United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia

UNOMSIL

United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone

UNOMUR

United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda

UNOSOM I

United Nations Operation in Somalia

UNOSOM II

Second United Nations Operation in Somalia

UNOTIL

United Nations Office in Timor Leste

UNOWA

United Nations Office for West Africa

UNPA

United Nations Protected Area

UNPREDEP

United Nations Preventive Deployment Force

UNPROFOR

United Nations Protection Force

UNRWA

United Nations Relief and Works Agency

UNSAS

United Nations Standby Arrangements System

UNSC

United Nations Security Council

UNSCO

United Nations Office of the Special Coordinator for the Occupied Territories

UNSCOM

United Nations Special Commission

UNSCOP

United Nations Special Committee on Palestine

UNSMA

United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan

UNSMIH

United Nations Support Mission in Haiti

UNTAC

United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia

UNTAES

United Nations Transitional Authority in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and Western Sirmium

UNTAET

United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor

UNTAG

United Nations Transition Assistance Group

UNTEA

United Nations Temporary Executive Authority

UNTSO

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

UTA

Union des Transports Aériens

WEU

Western European Union

WMD

Weapons of Mass Destruction

WTO

World Trade Organization

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ONTRIBUTORS
 

Adekeye Adebajo
is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of
Building Peace in West Africa
(Lynne Rienner, 2002), and
Liberia’s Civil War
(Lynne Rienner, 2002); and co-editor of
West Africa’s Security Challenges
(Lynne Rienner, 2004), and
A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations
, (Fanele, 2006). He served on UN missions in South Africa, Western Sahara, and Iraq.

Mats Berdal
is Professor of Security and Development in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He was formerly Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is co-editor with Spyros Economides of
United Nations Interventionism 1991–2004
(Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Jane Boulden
holds a Canada Research Chair in International Relations and Security Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. Previously, she was a MacArthur Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford. She is co-editor with Thomas Weiss of
Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11th
(Indiana University Press, 2004).

Richard Caplan
is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a fellow of Linacre College. He is the author of
International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction
(Oxford University Press, 2005) and
Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia
(Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Peter Carey
is Laithwaite Fellow in History at Trinity College, Oxford, specializing on the history and politics of South East Asia. He is the author (with G. Carter Bentley) of
East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation
(Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 1995); and (with Steve Cox),
Generations of Resistance: East Timor
(London: Cassell, 1995). He has recently published a major biographical study of the Indonesian national hero, Prince Dipanagara,
The Power of Prophecy, Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855
(Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007).

James Cockayne
is an Associate at the International Peace Academy. An international lawyer who has worked in Sydney, Paris, Arusha, Freetown, and New York, James is Chair of the editorial committee of the
Journal of International Criminal Justice
, and former Director of the Transnational Crime Unit, Australian Attorney-General’s Department.

David Cortright
is President of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His fifteen books include
Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism
(Paradigm Press, 2006).

Gilles Dorronsoro
is currently Professor of Political Science in the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris). He has recently published
Revolution Unending, Afghanistan: 1979 to Present
(Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2005), and is editor of
La Turquie conteste. Régime sécuritaire et mobilisations sociales
, (Editions du CNRS, 2005).

J. P. D. Dunbabin
was from 1963 to 2004 Fellow and Tutor at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, latterly also University Reader in International Relations. His publications include
International Relations since 1945
, i:
The Cold War
(rewritten edition, Pearson Longman, 2007), ii:
The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World
(Longman, 1994), and an article on the League of Nations.

Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf
is Research Director of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana. She contributes to the work of the joint Fourth Freedom Forum/Kroc Institute Sanctions and Security Project and the Center on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation.

Christine Gray
is currently Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St John’s College. She has been at Cambridge since 1997 and before that she was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1980.

Sir Jeremy Greenstock,
GCMG, is the Director of the Ditchley Foundation. Between 1969 and 2004, he held numerous positions in the British diplomatic service, including Political Director of the FCO (1996–8), UK Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York (1998–2003), and the UK Special Envoy for Iraq (September 2003–March 2004).

Bruce D. Jones
is Co-director of New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, where he leads research on multilateral security institutions and the UN and is series editor of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations, and Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Previously, he was Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General, and Chief of Staff to the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

Nico Krisch
is a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics and has been a research fellow at Merton College, Oxford, New York University Law School, and the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. He is the author of a monograph on Security Council powers and the right to self-defence
(Selbstverteidigung und kollektive Sicherheit
(Springer, 2001)) and of articles on the law on the use of force, on hegemony in international law, and on the legal framework of global governance.

George A. Lopez
holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research on United Nations economic sanctions includes the application of targeted sanctions against transnational terrorism. With David Cortright, he most recently published
Uniting Against Terror
(MIT Press, 2007).

Wm. Roger Louis
is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and a past president of the American Historical Association. He is an honorary fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His books include
Imperialism at Bay
(Clarendon Press, 1977) and
The British Empire in the Middle East
(Clarendon Press, 1984). His collected essays were published by I. B. Tauris in September 2006:
Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization.

Vaughan Lowe
is Chichele Professor of Public International Law, and a fellow of All Souls College, in the University of Oxford. He also practices in the field of international law as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London, and has appeared in cases before English and International courts, and sits on international tribunals.

Edward C. Luck
is Vice President and Director of Studies at the International Peace Academy, as well as Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (designate). He is currently on public service leave from Columbia University, where he is Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center on International Organization of the School of International and Public Affairs. His most recent book is
The UN Security Council: Practice and Promise
(Routledge, 2006).

David M. Malone
is Canada’s High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan. A former Canadian ambassador to the UN, he oversaw Canada’s multilateral and economic diplomacy with its Foreign Ministry, 2004–6. He was President of the International Peace Academy in New York, 1998–2004. His most recent book is
The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council
, 1980–2005 (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Georg Nolte
is Professor of Law at the University of Munich. In 2003/4 he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He has published on many issues of public international law and comparative constitutional law. He is a member for Germany of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the ‘Venice Commission’).

Sarah V. Percy
is University Lecturer and Fellow in International Relations at Merton College, Oxford. She has written widely about mercenaries, private military, and private security companies, including,
The Regulation of the Private Security Industry
(Routledge and the IISS, 2006), an article in
International
Organization
entitled, ‘Mercenaries: Strong Norm, Weak Law’ (61, no. 2), and
Mercenaries: The History of a Norm in International Relations
(Oxford University Press, 2007). Sarah was awarded the CAMOS Dissertation Prize at the 2006 American Political Science Association Convention for her dissertation, upon which her book is based.

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