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The demise of the cold war has given rise to new opportunities for and challenges to the United Nations’ peace and security functions. How have the implications of the global changes been perceived by the United Nations in recent years? What have been the perceptions and policies of the UN by the member states? What kind of measures have been proposed to strengthen and improve the capacity of the UN to meet the new expectations and tasks demanded by international society? Is the United Nations capable of effectively coping with the conflicts that are on the rise throughout the world? What will be the implication of the notion of state sovereignty — upon which the UN is constructed — and the UN’s intervention in internal conflicts? To what extent can and should the UN employ enforcement measures without compromising its legitimacy among the peoples of the world?
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Maurice Bertrand distinguishes three meanings of reform: (1) tinkering with the structure of the Secretariat; (2) defining priorities, co-ordination of the UN system; and (3) reorganizing the intergovernmental machinery -without or with reforming the Charter. See his ‘The Historical Development of Efforts to Reform the UN,’ in A. Roberts and B. Kingsbury (eds) United Nations, Divided World: the UN’s Role in International Relations, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
See Robert W. Gregg, About Face? The United States and the United Nations (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1993) p. 116.
See Yasuhiro Ueki, ‘Japan’s Approach to UN Peacekeeping and Peacemaking’, in The US and Japan in the Changing Environment for Multilateral Organizations: Papers and Workshop Summaries (The Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, 1993).
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See Usui, ‘The United Nations and Japan’s Role’, Gaiko Jiho, no. 1285 (February 1992) p. 9.
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Kenneth E. Boulding, ‘The human environment of the United Nations’, address at the General Conference of the International Peace Research Association held in Kyoto in July 1992. (unpublished draft text).
James N. Rosenau and Ernest-Otto Czempiel (eds) Governance Without Government: Order and Changes in World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) p. 4.
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Uchida, T. (1999). Northern Perspectives for Peace and Security Functions of the United Nations. In: Innovation in Multilateralism. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27151-1_4
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