Reflecting peacebuilding in practice: United Nations transitional administrations

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Utsukarçi, Şefkat
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The main aim of this dissertation is to analyze the idea and practice of handing over the administration of a territory to the United Nations on a temporary basis in response to manage and settle the consequences of a dispute concerning the future status of that territory. The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) are novel examples in this respect since they present both the opportunities offered and the challenges experienced by the international administrations and give clear guidelines for the future state-building engagements. Since the end of the Cold War, there emerged a definitive trend toward accepting a more interventionary role for the UN. Taking the changing nature of interventionism into account, within the scope of this dissertation, the foremost focus will be on the post-intervention period where peacebuilding and state-building processes take place in war-torn societies. Thereby, international transitional administrations which represent the most complex and comprehensive peace operations attempted by the United Nations will be the focal point of the study. Since such administrations assume some or all of the sovereign powers of an independent state, in a period when neo-interventionism and suspended or conditional sovereignty are debated, the degree of executive, legislative and judicial authority assumed by transitional administrations is worth to consider.
International relations., United Nations.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609747/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17702
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ş. Utsukarçi, “Reflecting peacebuilding in practice: United Nations transitional administrations,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.
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