Michael G MacKinnon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5795828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael G MacKinnon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael G |
| FAMILY NAME | MacKinnon |
| SIGNATURE | MACKINNON M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Origins and Evolution of US Policy Towards Peace Operations
This article contends that the William Clinton and George W. Bush administrations experienced similar transformations in their respective policies towards UN peace operations and nation-building. Although they began from nearly opposite perspectives, both came to remarkably similar conclusions about the value of peace operations, UN-led or otherwise, as tools for US foreign policy. Initial positions, driven in part by ideological concerns, gave w…
Peace Enforcement
The New Politics of Financing the UN
List of Figures Acronyms Introduction The Business of Making Ends Meet Changes in Problems and Principles The Ways from the Beginning The Regular Budget - An Uncertain Capacity to Pay Finding and Funding the Paths to Peace Washington: the UN's Dear Donor and Delinquent A Gallimaufry of Money-raising Devices Reassessing the Budgets The Discomfort of the Run-in with Reform And Back into the New Era Notes Index
Bad Times and Good
It may not be war, but it sure as Hell ain't peace.'1 Thus did Major-General S.L. Arnold, the commander of all United States Army forces in the Unified Task Force, describe the situation in Somalia in January 1993. Sadly, those words have a certain resonance for the entire 1990s, arguably the most challenging period in United Nations history. Over the past decade the organization has been extremely busy
Rivals or partners? Bureaucratic politics and the evolution of us peacekeeping policy
When President Clinton launched a peacekeeping policy review in February 1993, the State Department and the Pentagon had different priorities which had to be reconciled before any new policy could be agreed upon. The following 14 months saw these two departments pursue this goal with reasonable success, although they soon found themselves reacting to the political battle being waged between the White House and Congress over the nature and extent …
At the End of the American Century
It was one thing, writes editor Robert L. Hutchings in the introduction the present volume, to lead an alliance of Western democracies in a grand struggle against Soviet communism; quite another for the accumulated obligations of the forty years of Cold War confrontation ensnare us in a continued international role against no certain foe toward no certain ends. In At the End of the American Century Hutchings brings together a distinguished group …
Books reviewed
Multinational Naval Forces, edited by Peter T. Haydon and Ann L. Griffiths. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, 1996. pp.xi+261. $19.95. ISBN 1 896 44005 3. Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict: A Reconceptualisation by Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Pp.264. £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 745 61511 2. A United Nations for the Twenty‐First Century: Peace, Sec…
Peace Enforcement
The New Politics of Financing the UN
List of Figures Acronyms Introduction The Business of Making Ends Meet Changes in Problems and Principles The Ways from the Beginning The Regular Budget - An Uncertain Capacity to Pay Finding and Funding the Paths to Peace Washington: the UN's Dear Donor and Delinquent A Gallimaufry of Money-raising Devices Reassessing the Budgets The Discomfort of the Run-in with Reform And Back into the New Era Notes Index
The Origins and Evolution of US Policy Towards Peace Operations
This article contends that the William Clinton and George W. Bush administrations experienced similar transformations in their respective policies towards UN peace operations and nation-building. Although they began from nearly opposite perspectives, both came to remarkably similar conclusions about the value of peace operations, UN-led or otherwise, as tools for US foreign policy. Initial positions, driven in part by ideological concerns, gave w…
At the End of the American Century
It was one thing, writes editor Robert L. Hutchings in the introduction the present volume, to lead an alliance of Western democracies in a grand struggle against Soviet communism; quite another for the accumulated obligations of the forty years of Cold War confrontation ensnare us in a continued international role against no certain foe toward no certain ends. In At the End of the American Century Hutchings brings together a distinguished group …
Rivals or partners? Bureaucratic politics and the evolution of us peacekeeping policy
When President Clinton launched a peacekeeping policy review in February 1993, the State Department and the Pentagon had different priorities which had to be reconciled before any new policy could be agreed upon. The following 14 months saw these two departments pursue this goal with reasonable success, although they soon found themselves reacting to the political battle being waged between the White House and Congress over the nature and extent …
Books reviewed
Multinational Naval Forces, edited by Peter T. Haydon and Ann L. Griffiths. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, 1996. pp.xi+261. $19.95. ISBN 1 896 44005 3. Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict: A Reconceptualisation by Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Pp.264. £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 745 61511 2. A United Nations for the Twenty‐First Century: Peace, Sec…
Rivals or partners? Bureaucratic politics and the evolution of us peacekeeping policy
When President Clinton launched a peacekeeping policy review in February 1993, the State Department and the Pentagon had different priorities which had to be reconciled before any new policy could be agreed upon. The following 14 months saw these two departments pursue this goal with reasonable success, although they soon found themselves reacting to the political battle being waged between the White House and Congress over the nature and extent …
At the End of the American Century
It was one thing, writes editor Robert L. Hutchings in the introduction the present volume, to lead an alliance of Western democracies in a grand struggle against Soviet communism; quite another for the accumulated obligations of the forty years of Cold War confrontation ensnare us in a continued international role against no certain foe toward no certain ends. In At the End of the American Century Hutchings brings together a distinguished group …
Bad Times and Good
It may not be war, but it sure as Hell ain't peace.'1 Thus did Major-General S.L. Arnold, the commander of all United States Army forces in the Unified Task Force, describe the situation in Somalia in January 1993. Sadly, those words have a certain resonance for the entire 1990s, arguably the most challenging period in United Nations history. Over the past decade the organization has been extremely busy
The New Politics of Financing the UN
List of Figures Acronyms Introduction The Business of Making Ends Meet Changes in Problems and Principles The Ways from the Beginning The Regular Budget - An Uncertain Capacity to Pay Finding and Funding the Paths to Peace Washington: the UN's Dear Donor and Delinquent A Gallimaufry of Money-raising Devices Reassessing the Budgets The Discomfort of the Run-in with Reform And Back into the New Era Notes Index
Peace Enforcement
The Origins and Evolution of US Policy Towards Peace Operations
This article contends that the William Clinton and George W. Bush administrations experienced similar transformations in their respective policies towards UN peace operations and nation-building. Although they began from nearly opposite perspectives, both came to remarkably similar conclusions about the value of peace operations, UN-led or otherwise, as tools for US foreign policy. Initial positions, driven in part by ideological concerns, gave w…
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