Land of Blue Helmets

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction - Karim Makdisi and Vijay Prashad PART ONE - DIPLOMACY 1 * The Role of the UN Secretary-General: A Historical Assessment - Andrew Gilmour 2 * Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as Seen from a Special Commission - Lori Allen 3 * On Behalf of the United Nations: Serving as Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council for Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967 - Richard Falk 4 * The UN Statehood Bid: Palestine's Flirtation with Multilateralism - Noura Erakat 5 * The Wrong Kind of Intervention in Syria - Asli Bali and Aziz Rana PART TWO - ENFORCEMENT AND PEACEKEEPING 6 * Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 in Lebanon in the Shadow of the "War on Terror" - Karim Makdisi 7 * The UN Security Council and Ghosts of Iraq - Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone 8 * Iraq: Twenty Years in the Shadow of Chapter VII - Coralie Pison Hindawi 9 * Libya: A UN Resolution and NATO's Failure to Protect - Jeff Bachman 10 * Peacekeeping and the Arab World: India's Rise and Its Impact on UN Missions in Sudan = Zachariah Mampilly PART THREE - HUMANITARIANISM AND REFUGEES 11 * The UN Human Rights Game and the Arab Region: Playing Not to Lose - Fateh Azzam 12 * The Politics of the Sanctions on Iraq and the UN Humanitarian Exception = Hans-Christof von Sponeck 13 * An Agency for the Palestinians? - Jalal Al Husseini 14 * Challenged but Steadfast: Nine Years with Palestinian Refugees and the UN Relief and Works Agency = Filippo Grandi 15 * The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Iraq Refugee Operation: Resettling Refugees, Shifting the Middle East Humanitarian Landscape - Arafat Jamal 16 * The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Middle East - Shaden Khallaf 17 * The Middle East: A Mandatory Return to Humanitarian Action - Caroline Abu Sa'Da PART FOUR - DEVELOPMENT 18 * The UN, the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia, and Development in the Arab World = Omar Dahi 19 * The United Nations, Palestine, Liberation, and Development - Raja Khalidi 20 * Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western Strategies in the Context of Colonization - Mandy Turner 21 * The International Labour Organization and Workers' Rights in the Arab Region: The Need to Return to Basics - Walid Hamdan 22 * Peacekeeping, Development, and Counterinsurgency: The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and "Quick Impact Projects" - Susann Kassem 23 * The Protective Shields: Civil Society Organizations and the UN in the Arab Region = Kinda Mohamadieh List of Contributors Index