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Perilous Interventions: (Record no. 39643)

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fixed length control field	02416nam a22001817a 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9789351777595
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	341.2323
Item number	PUR-P
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Puri, Hardeep singh
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Perilous Interventions:
Sub Title	The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos/
Statement of responsibility, etc	Hardeep Singh Puri
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	Gurugram:
Name of publisher	HarperCollins Publishers India,
Year of publication	2016
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	xiii,280p.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc	Include Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	It was an exclusive lunch at a high-end Manhattan restaurant on 7 March 2011. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his entire A-team were present. It soon became clear that the main item on the menu was Libya, where it was alleged that the forces of Muammar Gaddafi were rapidly advancing on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to crush all opposition. Over an $80-per-head lunch, a small group of the world’s most important diplomats from countries represented on the Security Council discussed the possibility of the use of force, ostensibly to protect civilians, but in reality to effect regime change. As things turned out, the Council’s authorization came only ten days later and all hell broke loose.<br/><br/>Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s envoy to the UN at the time, reveals the Council’s whimsical decision making and the ill-thought-out itch to intervene on the part of some of its permanent members. In contrast, on Syria—which too was unravelling at the same time—the Libyan experience and differences within the Council led to a complete policy paralysis. The result, made worse by the earlier intervention in Iraq, has been the creation of the ISIS and the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.<br/><br/>Perilous Interventions shows how some recent instances of the use of force—not just in Libya and Syria but also in Yemen and Crimea, as well as India’s misadventure in Sri Lanka in the 1980s—have gone disastrously wrong. Puri focuses on the syndrome of intervening nations turning away from the scene once their interests have been achieved. He also highlights India’s key role in warning against interventions and attempts at regime change.<br/><br/>Treading the path of reason and caution, Perilous Interventions calls out world powers on their misdeeds and cries for a reform of the global political order.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Security Council
Geographic subdivision	United Nations.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Intervention (International law)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Politics and government
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Home library	Current library	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Bill Date	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Accession Number	Date last seen	Cost, replacement price	Price effective from	Koha item type
				NASSDOC Library	NASSDOC Library	21/03/2024	Overseas Press India PVT LMT	576.87	2024-03-22		341.2323 PUR-P	54578	29/05/2024	799.00	29/05/2024	Books