Over the past eighty years, the evolution of UN peace operations has encountered several critical junctures. Now, UN peace operations have arguably reached another turning point with the decline in the number of UN-led multidimensional missions and a…
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Challenging views that have gained currency since the end of the Cold War, this study examines the history of the United Nations since 1945, its various roles in international relations and its approaches to peace-keeping and the use of force.The authors provide a basis for courses and debates on the UN. Appraising the organisation’s past […]
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Security Council Resolution 687, the Gulf War “cease-fire resolution” is in many respects a milestone with regard to the UN’s evolving role in the maintenance of international peace and security.Unprecedented in terms of the extensive obligations it imposes on Iraq, as well as the institutions established to face it, it raises issues the UN is […]
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