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During the United Nations’ first 45 years, the assumption that the permanent members of the Security Council would work together in peace as they had in war proved to be erroneous. The disintegration of the bipolar world order in 1989, reinforced by the successful expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait by a UN-sanctioned coalition in 1991, raised expectations that, in the words of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, ‘an opportunity has been regained to achieve the great objectives of the Charter — a United Nations capable of maintaining international peace and security…’.1
The project is funded by the W. Alton Jones Foundation of Charlottesville, Virginia. A previous version of this chapter was published in Security Dialogue, Vol. 25(1), 1994, as ‘Collective Control of UN Peace Support Operations: A Policy Proposal’, pp. 77–92 (used by permission). The views expressed are the authors’ own and do not represent those of the British government, the Ministry of Defence or the Royal Navy.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace ( New York: United Nations, 1992 ), p. 1.
Inis L. Claude, Jr, ‘Collective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations’, International Organisation, Vol. 20 (Summer 1966 ), p. 367.
See Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury (eds), United Nations, Divided World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), Appendix E, pp. 538–9.
We have adopted the name suggested by Admiral Sir James Eberle, GCB, LLD, in his article ‘Military Aspects of An Agenda for Peace’, contained in Memorandum on an Agenda for Peace ( London: United Nations Association, 1993 ), p. 36.
Benjamin Rivlin and Leon Gordenker (eds), The Challenging Role of the UN Secretary-General: Making ‘The Most Impossible Job in the World’ Possible (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1993), p. vii.
See, for instance, Jeane Kirkpatrick, ‘Commander Butros [sic] Ghali? No, the Title Does Not Become Him’, International Herald Tribune, 15 March 1993.
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Whitman, J., Bartholomew, I. (1995). UN Peace Support Operations: Political-Military Considerations. In: Daniel, D.C.F., Hayes, B.C. (eds) Beyond Traditional Peacekeeping. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23855-2_9
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