Canada, the Congo crisis, and UN peacekeeping, 1960-64
By: Kevin A. Spooner
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780774816366
Subjects: Forces de maintien de la paix; Armed Forces; Histoire; United Nations; Relations extérieures; Peacekeeping forces; United Nations Operation in the Congo; Friedenstruppen; Vereinte Nationen; Opération des Nations Unies au Congo; Militär; Nations Unies; Kongokrise; Militärpolitik; Forces armées; Friedenspolitik; Aussenpolitik; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Prelude to Crisis: Setting the Stage for Canadian Involvement; title: 2. Decision Time: Diefenbaker and the Dispatch of Peacekeepers; title: 3. Deployment: Trials and Tribulations in ONUC's Early Days; title: 4. Constitutional Crisis: Peacekeeping in a Political Vacuum; title: 5. Continued Chaos: Balancing Peacekeeping and Politics; title: 6. Challenge of Katanga: Peacekeeping and the Use of Force; title: 7. Preparing for Withdrawal: ONUC's Final Months.