Peacekeeping: The Formative Years
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Decolonization, Sovereignty, and Peacekeeping The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), 1956–1967
Decolonization, Sovereignty, and Peacekeeping
Hanny Hilmy
Decolonization, Sovereignty, and Peacekeeping The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), 1956–1967
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Hanny Hilmy Centre for Global Studies University of Victoria Victoria, BC, Canada
ISBN 978-3-030-57623-3 ISBN 978-3-030-57624-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57624-0
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To my wife Marjukka (Välimaa) Hilmy With Love and Respect To my daughters Nadine and Nora, With love that cannot be quantified or surpassed To my late father General and Ambassador Amin Hilmy II With Eternal Love
Foreword
The matching of scholar and subject is not often as seamless as that exhibited by Hanny Hilmy’s Decolonization, Sovereignty, and Peacekeeping: The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), 1956–1967. His examination of this underexplored era of the early Cold War in the Middle East provides bo
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