Eva-Maria Muschik is a historian and an assistant professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna.

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 proved essential to the decolonization of the world, as Eva-Maria Muschik elegantly demonstrates in this state-of-the-art international history. In its first twenty years, the UN machinery was instrumental in new states’ attainment of formal sovereignty—and played an even more pivotal role in the development of many new states after their emergence. Revising our understanding of an era in which the UN’s contribution has often been criticized or trivialized, Muschik has transformed the study of international governance.

• Introduction: Managing the World1. The UN and the Colonial World: International Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories2. How to Build a State?: The UN in Libya3. If Ten Years Suffice for Somaliland . . .4. Moving Beyond Advice: Pioneering Administrative Assistance in Bolivia5. Hammarskjöld, Decolonization, and the Proposal for an International Administrative Service6. State-Building Meets Peacekeeping: UN Civilian Operations in the Congo Crisis, 1960–1964EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Eva-Maria Muschik is a historian and an assistant professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna.

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 proved essential to the decolonization of the world, as Eva-Maria Muschik elegantly demonstrates in this state-of-the-art international history. In its first twenty years, the UN machinery was instrumental in new states’ attainment of formal sovereignty—and played an even more pivotal role in the development of many new states after their emergence. Revising our understanding of an era in which the UN’s contribution has often been criticized or trivialized, Muschik has transformed the study of international governance.

• Introduction: Managing the World1. The UN and the Colonial World: International Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories2. How to Build a State?: The UN in Libya3. If Ten Years Suffice for Somaliland . . .4. Moving Beyond Advice: Pioneering Administrative Assistance in Bolivia5. Hammarskjöld, Decolonization, and the Proposal for an International Administrative Service6. State-Building Meets Peacekeeping: UN Civilian Operations in the Congo Crisis, 1960–1964EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Eva-Maria Muschik is a historian and an assistant professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna.

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 proved essential to the decolonization of the world, as Eva-Maria Muschik elegantly demonstrates in this state-of-the-art international history. In its first twenty years, the UN machinery was instrumental in new states’ attainment of formal sovereignty—and played an even more pivotal role in the development of many new states after their emergence. Revising our understanding of an era in which the UN’s contribution has often been criticized or trivialized, Muschik has transformed the study of international governance.

• Introduction: Managing the World1. The UN and the Colonial World: International Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories2. How to Build a State?: The UN in Libya3. If Ten Years Suffice for Somaliland . . .4. Moving Beyond Advice: Pioneering Administrative Assistance in Bolivia5. Hammarskjöld, Decolonization, and the Proposal for an International Administrative Service6. State-Building Meets Peacekeeping: UN Civilian Operations in the Congo Crisis, 1960–1964EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex