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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats - United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 (Hardcover)
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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats - United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 (Hardcover)
Series: Human Rights in History
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This history of colonial legacies in UN peacekeeping operations
from 1945-1971 reveals how United Nations peacekeeping staff
reconfigured the functions of global governance and sites of
diplomatic power in the post-war world. Despite peacekeeping
operations being criticised for their colonial underpinnings, our
understanding of the ways in which colonial actors and ideas
influenced peacekeeping practices on the ground has been limited
and imprecise. In this multi-archival history, Margot Tudor
investigates the UN's formative armed missions and uncovers the
officials that orchestrated a reinvention of colonial-era
hierarchies for Global South populations on the front lines of
post-colonial statehood. She demonstrates how these officials
exploited their field-based access to perpetuate racial prejudices,
plot political interference, and foster protracted inter-communal
divisions in post-colonial conflict contexts. Bringing together
histories of humanitarianism, decolonisation, and the Cold War,
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats sheds new light on the mechanisms through
which sovereignty was negotiated and re-negotiated after 1945.
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