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This is the personal story of Dame Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Angola and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission there from February 1992 to June 1993. Formerly a colony of Portugal, Angola was awarded independence following the democratization of Portugal in 1975. After independence, disagreement emerged between Angola's main ethno-political groups which resulted in one of the most bloody civil wars the world has known. The author, the first woman to head a peacekeeping mission, intersperses personal experiences with events as they unfold, describing the horrendous sufferings of the Angolan people and analyses the reasons for the collapse of the process and the lessons for UN peacekeeping generally.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Context: Personal, National and International
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The Military and Security Situation — February to September 1992
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The Preparation and Organisation of the Elections — March to September 1992
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Day to Day Living
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The Elections and their Aftermath
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MARGARET JOAN ANSTEE
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Orphan of the Cold War
Book Subtitle: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process, 1992-93
Authors: Margaret Joan Anstee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376731
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66445-2Published: 20 September 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66446-9Published: 17 September 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37673-1Published: 20 September 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 566
Topics: International Relations, International Organization, Literature, general, Peace Studies