The United Nations Trusteeship System: Legacies, Continuities, and Change [Paperback]

1.Introduction  2.Institutional Design of the UN Trusteeship System: Between Colonial Interests & Anti-colonial Ambitions  3.Decolonization and (the limits of) UN Agency: The UN Secretariat and the Trusteeship System  4.Partitioning Togoland by Nullifying the Right to Petition  5.A Colonial War under UN-Supervision? The Trusteeship System and the Silenced War in Cameroon  6.Colonial Legacies of Decolonization: The Trust Territory of Somaliland and Italian Behavior towards the Horn of Africa  7.Nuclear Testing on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: How the US became an imperial power in the region of Micronesia  8.Now the UN has its first colony: Technical Assistance and Informal Trusteeship during the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Congo, 1960  9.Breaking with the Past? Neo-Trusteeship in the 21st Century  10.Trusteeship as Affective Arrangement: Exploring Affective Practices of an International BureaucracyThis book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations, and international politics.

This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations and international politics. International contributors address the UN Trusteeship System as a venue for multiple state and non- state actors and its effect on the international system. Rather than viewing UN trusteeship as a bygone phenomenon, the volume underscores its current relevance, particularly in view of the recent resurgence of trusteeship models such as in Kosovo and East Timor. Offering a novel and robust, yet simple and intuitive analytical framework through which to understand al35