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The United Nations in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific / Roderic Alley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International political economy seriesPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press, 1998Description: xiii, 255 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0312214707
  • 9780312214708
  • 0333727657
  • 9780333727652
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.2359
LOC classification:
  • JZ4997.5.A83 A44 1998
Contents:
List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The UN and Cambodia -- Key Dilemmas -- The UN and State Interest 1979-86 -- Substantive differences -- The UN as Humanitarian: 1979-86 -- Emergent Flexibility 1985-90 -- The Paris Agreements: An Uneasy Amalgam -- Implementation -- Human Rights -- Whose 'Cambodia'? -- 3. The UN and Refugees -- The Boat People and the 1979 Geneva Conference -- The 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action -- Cambodia -- Myanmar and Indonesia -- The Rohingya Muslims -- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea -- 4. The UN and Development -- ESCAP -- UNDP -- The UNDP in Southeast Asia -- The UN and Social Amelioration in Southeast Asia -- The South Pacific -- The UNDP in the South Pacific -- Social Amelioration in the South Pacific -- UN Development Initiatives Assessed -- 5. The UN and the Environment -- North/South Polarizations -- Environmental and Resources Sovereignty: Southeast Asia -- Forests -- ASEAN's Cautious Environmental Diplomacy -- The South Pacific -- The 1994 Barbados Conference -- Coordination in the South Pacific -- 6. The UN and Human Rights -- The Role of the UN -- Praxis -- Indonesia -- Myanmar -- The Philippines -- State Response in Southeast Asia -- The South Pacific -- Papua New Guinea and Bougainville -- The South Pacific: Indigenous Rights -- The NGO dimension -- 7. The UN and the Advancement of Women -- Women in Asia-Pacific -- The UN Conference Sequence -- Preparatory Deliberations -- The Jakarta Plan of Action -- The Beijing Conference -- The NGO Dimension and Beijing -- Post-Beijing Challenges -- 8. The UN/Regional Interface -- ASEAN -- ASEAN Norm Creation -- The South Pacific Forum -- South Pacific Norm Creation -- Humanitarianism: The Regional/UN Dimension -- Political interactions -- 9. The UN and State Conduct -- Constitutive State Factors: East Timor -- Societal Dimensions of State Conduct -- Distinctive State Interest Promotion -- Peacekeeping -- Preventative Diplomacy -- Positions Towards UN Reform -- South Pacific State Interest -- 10. Conclusions -- Continuing Legacies -- Sovereignty Considerations -- The UN as Corridor of Hierarchy -- Civil and Cultural Factors -- Problems of Complementarity -- Possible Future Directions -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.

List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The UN and Cambodia -- Key Dilemmas -- The UN and State Interest 1979-86 -- Substantive differences -- The UN as Humanitarian: 1979-86 -- Emergent Flexibility 1985-90 -- The Paris Agreements: An Uneasy Amalgam -- Implementation -- Human Rights -- Whose 'Cambodia'? -- 3. The UN and Refugees -- The Boat People and the 1979 Geneva Conference -- The 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action -- Cambodia -- Myanmar and Indonesia -- The Rohingya Muslims -- Indonesia and Papua New Guinea -- 4. The UN and Development -- ESCAP -- UNDP -- The UNDP in Southeast Asia -- The UN and Social Amelioration in Southeast Asia -- The South Pacific -- The UNDP in the South Pacific -- Social Amelioration in the South Pacific -- UN Development Initiatives Assessed -- 5. The UN and the Environment -- North/South Polarizations -- Environmental and Resources Sovereignty: Southeast Asia -- Forests -- ASEAN's Cautious Environmental Diplomacy -- The South Pacific -- The 1994 Barbados Conference -- Coordination in the South Pacific -- 6. The UN and Human Rights -- The Role of the UN -- Praxis -- Indonesia -- Myanmar -- The Philippines -- State Response in Southeast Asia -- The South Pacific -- Papua New Guinea and Bougainville -- The South Pacific: Indigenous Rights -- The NGO dimension -- 7. The UN and the Advancement of Women -- Women in Asia-Pacific -- The UN Conference Sequence -- Preparatory Deliberations -- The Jakarta Plan of Action -- The Beijing Conference -- The NGO Dimension and Beijing -- Post-Beijing Challenges -- 8. The UN/Regional Interface -- ASEAN -- ASEAN Norm Creation -- The South Pacific Forum -- South Pacific Norm Creation -- Humanitarianism: The Regional/UN Dimension -- Political interactions -- 9. The UN and State Conduct -- Constitutive State Factors: East Timor -- Societal Dimensions of State Conduct -- Distinctive State Interest Promotion -- Peacekeeping -- Preventative Diplomacy -- Positions Towards UN Reform -- South Pacific State Interest -- 10. Conclusions -- Continuing Legacies -- Sovereignty Considerations -- The UN as Corridor of Hierarchy -- Civil and Cultural Factors -- Problems of Complementarity -- Possible Future Directions -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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