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Politics and Priorities |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL FEATURE--THE UNITED NATIONS AT 50 |
| Author: John R. Bolton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,856 Words, 12,452 Characters |
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the entire history of UN peacekeeping operations during the Cold War, and in its immediate aftermath, is that long-range and enduring interests should not be swept aside by the temporary fits of optimism that seem to affect American and Western political systems.
For example, UN peacekeeping has been largely successful in the context of interstate disputes, such as the conflict between Iran and Iraq, or in observer missions such as the UN Disengagement Observer Force between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights. Even in cases that were not so clearly interstate in character, such as Namibia-Angola, Afghanistan, and Central America, the actual combatants were often surrogates for the superpower adversaries.
Thus, while elements of ...
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...of international malaise about the future of the United Nations as it approaches its 50th birthday. They also demonstrate why the UN's best friends are often its worst enemies.
When member governments assign the United Nations more complex tasks than there is political will to carry out, it can result in human tragedies and political disasters such as Somalia and former Yugoslavia.
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