The Transformation of United Nations Peace Operations in the 1990s: Adding Globalization to the Conventional ‘End of the Cold War Explanation’

Cooperation and Conflict

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 267-282

  Jakobsen, Peter Viggo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

globalization; humanitarian operations; norms; peace operations; UN

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996226269     PISSN: 00108367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010836702037003672     Document Type: Article

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