United Nations and Human Security

EDWARD NEWMAN is an Academic Associate in the Peace and Governance Programme of the United Nations University. He is author of The UN Secretary-General from the Cold War to the New Era: a Global Peace and Security Mandate? and is co-editor of The Changing Nature of Democracy and New Millennium, New Perspectives: the United Nations, Security and Governance - OLIVER RICHMOND is Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. He is the author of Mediating in Cyprus and The Work of the UN in Cyprus and has published several articles on ethnic conflict, security, the UN, the Cyprus problem, and approaches to making peace.

• Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONALISM: CONSIDERATIONS AND CONTENTIONS Introduction: Beyond Peacekeeping?; E.Newman & O.P.Richmond Human Security and Preventative Action Strategies; J.G.Cockell The Limits of UN Multi-dimensional Peace Operations; O.P.Richmond (Re)building Political Society: the UN in Democratization; E.Newman Refugees, Human Rights and the Issue of Human Security; G.G.Troeller PART II: THE UN AND THE LIBERAL ETHIC: NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS Community, Solidarity and Late Westphalian International Relations; P.Bacon Echoes of the 'Mission Civilisatrice': Peacekeeping in the post-Cold-War Era; R.Paris PART III: MEDIATING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: BEYOND WESTPHALIA? International Peace and Security and International Criminal Justice; R.Kerr Playing with Fire: Humanitarian Intervention Post-Kosovo; A.Schnabel The UN and Regional Organizations; M.M.McKenzie UN Finances: What Are the Costs and Who Pays the Bills?; A.McDermott Elections and 'Protectorate Democracy' in South-east Europe; M.Pugh Consolidating Democratic Governance in Post-Conflict Central America; C.Santos Index