Alanna O’malley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alanna O’malley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alanna |
| FAMILY NAME | O’malley |
| SIGNATURE | O’MALLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6698-1663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A revisionist history of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challenges to global organization, arising from war and humanitarian catastrophe, led to the creation of the UN as a set of bureaucratic institutions and as a system of international order after the Second World War.1 However, writing the UN’s history from that departure point has skewed analyses of …
Confronting the Challenges to Multilateralism in Times of Crises
The Simba Rebellion, the Cold War, and the Stanleyville Hostages in the Congo
In late October 1964, nearly 1,000 European and U.S. citizens were taken hostage by rebel forces in Stanleyville in northern Congo as part of an attempt to create the “People’s Republic of Congo,” an opposition regime designed to rival the pro-Western government in the capital Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). The hostages were captured to use as leverage against the advancing Armée Nationale Congolaise (ANC), led by white mercenaries as part of a Wes…
Introduction
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Resolution 1325, this introduction discusses the state of the field in the women peace and security (WPS) agenda and outlines the challenges to implementation. It begins by introducing the current gaps we see in WPS practice, many of which are driven by insufficient data and lack of funding. The section that follows provides a brief discussion of the global diffusion of the WPS agenda. We highlight the …
The Institution of International Order
What an awful body the UN have become!!' Anglo-American–UN relations during the Congo crisis, February–December 1961
When Lord Salisbury passed the above remark in November 1961 it was at a moment of intense frustration for the British Foreign Office during the Congo crisis as the UN accelerated their efforts to restore territorial integrity to the Central African state by ending the secession of Katanga. The British viewed UN actions as a threat to their political and economic interests in the Congo and in Central Africa but crucially, also found that they wer…
Ghana, India, and the Transnational Dynamics of the Congo Crisis at the United Nations, 1960–1
This article examines the role of Ghana and India at the United Nations during the Congo crisis from July 1960 to February 1961. The role of non-aligned countries both in the UN peacekeeping force, Opération des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC), and in the negotiation of Congo policy was fundamental to the evolution of events. The article shows how Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana used the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Afro-…
Who killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa
Dag Hammarskjöld was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said, “When they killed him”’ (p. 232). These were reportedly the remarks of former US President Harry S. Truman commenting to the press following the demise of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash at Ndola in Northern Rhodesia. Indeed, the provocative nature of the title of this book is carried through the pages which trace Williams’…
Introduction
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Resolution 1325, this introduction discusses the state of the field in the women peace and security (WPS) agenda and outlines the challenges to implementation. It begins by introducing the current gaps we see in WPS practice, many of which are driven by insufficient data and lack of funding. The section that follows provides a brief discussion of the global diffusion of the WPS agenda. We highlight the …
Ghana, India, and the Transnational Dynamics of the Congo Crisis at the United Nations, 1960–1
This article examines the role of Ghana and India at the United Nations during the Congo crisis from July 1960 to February 1961. The role of non-aligned countries both in the UN peacekeeping force, Opération des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC), and in the negotiation of Congo policy was fundamental to the evolution of events. The article shows how Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana used the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Afro-…
A revisionist history of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challenges to global organization, arising from war and humanitarian catastrophe, led to the creation of the UN as a set of bureaucratic institutions and as a system of international order after the Second World War.1 However, writing the UN’s history from that departure point has skewed analyses of …
Who killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa
Dag Hammarskjöld was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said, “When they killed him”’ (p. 232). These were reportedly the remarks of former US President Harry S. Truman commenting to the press following the demise of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash at Ndola in Northern Rhodesia. Indeed, the provocative nature of the title of this book is carried through the pages which trace Williams’…
Ghana, India, and the Transnational Dynamics of the Congo Crisis at the United Nations, 1960–1
This article examines the role of Ghana and India at the United Nations during the Congo crisis from July 1960 to February 1961. The role of non-aligned countries both in the UN peacekeeping force, Opération des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC), and in the negotiation of Congo policy was fundamental to the evolution of events. The article shows how Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana used the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Afro-…
What an awful body the UN have become!!' Anglo-American–UN relations during the Congo crisis, February–December 1961
When Lord Salisbury passed the above remark in November 1961 it was at a moment of intense frustration for the British Foreign Office during the Congo crisis as the UN accelerated their efforts to restore territorial integrity to the Central African state by ending the secession of Katanga. The British viewed UN actions as a threat to their political and economic interests in the Congo and in Central Africa but crucially, also found that they wer…
The Institution of International Order
The Simba Rebellion, the Cold War, and the Stanleyville Hostages in the Congo
In late October 1964, nearly 1,000 European and U.S. citizens were taken hostage by rebel forces in Stanleyville in northern Congo as part of an attempt to create the “People’s Republic of Congo,” an opposition regime designed to rival the pro-Western government in the capital Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). The hostages were captured to use as leverage against the advancing Armée Nationale Congolaise (ANC), led by white mercenaries as part of a Wes…
Introduction
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Resolution 1325, this introduction discusses the state of the field in the women peace and security (WPS) agenda and outlines the challenges to implementation. It begins by introducing the current gaps we see in WPS practice, many of which are driven by insufficient data and lack of funding. The section that follows provides a brief discussion of the global diffusion of the WPS agenda. We highlight the …
Confronting the Challenges to Multilateralism in Times of Crises
A revisionist history of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challenges to global organization, arising from war and humanitarian catastrophe, led to the creation of the UN as a set of bureaucratic institutions and as a system of international order after the Second World War.1 However, writing the UN’s history from that departure point has skewed analyses of …
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)