These include the Mulroney government’s support of a strong UN-centred security architecture and of peacekeeping, Canada’s rela- tions with the United States and the UN and the ability of coalitions and the Canadian Forces to stabilize failed and fragile states. [...] The Canadian Forces’ participation in a UN airlift is the subject of Chapter 4. Chapters 5 and 6 examine the troop commitment to the peacekeeping mission and the Canadian Forces’ selection of the Airborne Regiment and its attempt to define its task. [...] The decision to engage in the US coalition and the military preparations for that operation are considered in Chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 9 looks at the government’s decision to not contribute to the second UN mission to Somalia and the Somalia scandal, and Chapter 10 examines the Canadian Forces operations on the ground in Somalia, the disturbing incidents involving Canadian soldiers, and the withd [...] The United Nations was more willing and able to deal with conflict, although it remained essentially an instrument of persuasion.2 The UN’s legitimacy was on the rise because it was managing more complex missions and its success rate was increasing.3 The coalition Somalia in the early 1990s Multilateral Humanitarianism and the Somalia Crisis 11 victory in the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) suggested t [...] Its most important legacy was the formation of a link between traditional missions and those of the multifunctional “second generation.”14 The UN Observer Group in Central America (1989-92) was the first deployed to the Western hemisphere and to disarm and demobilize a guerrilla army (the Contras).15 Blue helmets in the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (1991-95) were the first assigned human rig
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0774812974 9780774855099
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- DT407.43
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 Food for Thought: Multilateral Humanitarianism and the Somalia Crisis to March 1992 20
- 2 The Canadian Forces and the Recommendation to Stay out of Somalia 35
- 3 “Do Something Significant”: Government Reconsideration of the Somalia Crisis 51
- 4 The Humanitarian Airlift Takes Flight 64
- 5 Sticking with the (Wrong) Peacekeeping Mission 81
- 6 Problems with the Expanded UN Operation 107
- 7 Robust Militarism: Support for the Unified Task Force 122
- 8 Unified Task Force: Canada’s First Post-Cold War Enforcement Coalition 132
- 9 Stay or Go? Weighing a Role in the Second UN Mission 145
- 10 The Canadian Joint Force Somalia: In the Field 157
- Conclusion 175
- Notes 182
- Bibliography 218
- Index 230
- A 230
- B 230
- C 231
- D 234
- E 234
- F 234
- G 234
- H 234
- I 235
- J 235
- K 236
- L 236
- M 236
- N 238
- O 238
- P 238
- R 239
- S 239
- T 240
- U 240
- V 241
- W 241
- Y 241
