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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats challenges the conventional narrative of UN peacekeeping as a benevolent force for international stability. Margot Tudor demonstrates how peacekeeping missions served as mechanisms through which Western powers, particularly through UN bureaucratic structures, maintained colonial-style control over newly independent nations during the Cold War era.
Through detailed historical analysis spanning 1945 to 1971, Tudor examines how peacekeeping operations were deployed strategically to protect Western interests while undermining indigenous sovereignty. The book reveals the complicity of international bureaucracies in perpetuating power imbalances and economic dependencies reminiscent of formal colonialism.
Essential for understanding decolonization, international relations, and human rights history, this work exposes the often-overlooked imperial dimensions of multilateral institutions and their impact on developing nations.
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