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The United Nations and the Peaceful Unification of Korea

The Politics of Field Operations, 1947–1950

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  1. Leon Gordenker

    1. Princeton University, Princeton, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Korean Problem and the United Nations

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 1-25

  3. Formal Organization of the Commissions

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 26-48

  4. Korean Election, 1948: The Decision to Observe

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 49-85

  5. Korean Election, 1948: Consultation, Observation and Report

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 86-114

  6. UNTCOK and the Republic

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 115-142

  7. The Development of Representative Government

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 143-185

  8. Troop Withdrawal and Border Incidents

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 186-210

  9. The Failure of Unification

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 211-240

  10. Conclusions

    • Leon Gordenker
    Pages 241-267

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 268-312
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Where there has been fighting or the threat of fighting since the end of the Second World War, the United Nations has ahnost al­ ways been involved. Frequently that involvement has taken the concrete form of a field commission or a team of observers, made up of nationals of several countries and reporting to the General Assembly or the Security Council. Even while I write this, military observers wearing special United Nations insignia are patrolling the border areas of Syria and Lebanon. Meanwhile, observation groups with a longer history are on duty in Kashmir and along the Israeli borders. A field commission of the United Nations still remains in Korea, and others had been at work in Greece, Eritrea, Somalia and on the Hungarian border. All of them lived, worked and reported in an atmosphere of controversy. Perhaps none could have claimed that their work ended in full success. Their existence, however, suggests that the United Nations has developed a special political instrument for use in troubled areas where solutions are elusive but where danger of a spreading con­ flict is never distant. This study deals with the work of field com­ missions of the United Nations in Korea before the violence of 1950. Their work, whatever its merit, came crashing down with the North Korean attack.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Princeton University, Princeton, USA

    Leon Gordenker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The United Nations and the Peaceful Unification of Korea

  • Book Subtitle: The Politics of Field Operations, 1947–1950

  • Authors: Leon Gordenker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1057-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1959

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-0426-3Published: 01 January 1959

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-1057-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 306

  • Topics: Political Science, History, general

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