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 Bâli 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