In the very eye of the storm’

India, the UN, and the Lebanon crisis of 1958

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ID12695852
AuthorsSwapna Kona Nayudu (LSE IDEAS, London, United Kingdom, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume18
Issue2
Pages221-237
Publication date2018-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCold War History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14682745.2018.1445997
OpenAlexW2796420573
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This paper effectively provides the view from New Delhi of the crisis in Lebanon in 1958, UN intervention in the conflict, and subsequent peacekeeping in the region. The account uses archival material from the National Archives of India, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, the UNARMS, the National Archives, UK, and published primary material. Most significantly, the paper revisits the memoirs of Ambassador Rajeshwar Dayal (the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative) who was seconded from the Indian Foreign Service for the special purpose of UN arbitration in the Lebanon Crisis. Dayal played a pivotal role in defining India’s position in the crisis, and through Indian contributions to mediation and peacekeeping, in the UN. Furthermore, given India’s relationships with many other non-aligned nations in the region, the paper takes a broader view of the narratives surrounding the crisis and eventual US intervention and victory from mainly Indian sources, thus contributing to the study of the short-lived crisis

Business · Development economics · Intervention (counseling · Mediation · Memoir · New delhi · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Victory · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Medicine · Peacebuilding and International Security

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