Volume 41, Number 9 · May 12, 1994
Who Can Police the World?
By Brian Urquhart
Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and Beyond
by Gareth Evans
Allen and Unwin, 224 pp., Australian $17.95 (paper)
Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia Publishers
by Samuel M. Makinda
International Peace Academy: Occasional Paper Series, Lynne Rienner, 92 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The UN in Cambodia: Lessons for Complex Peacekeeping International Peacekeeping
by Michael W. Doyle, by Nishkala Suntharalingam
International Peace Academy: an occasional essay forthcoming in, Vol. I, No. 2 pp.
Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action Publishers
by Ian Johnstone
International Peace Academy: Occasional Paper Series, Lynne Rienner, 84 pp., $7.95 (paper)
By now it should be clear that the United Nations has been held back not just by the cold war and the Soviet veto. The task of creating an effective world organization is in itself extremely difficult and frustrating whatever the political climate. During the post–cold war period, after two or three unexpectedly successful operations, the UN has found itself once again in a lamentable predicament. While its meager resources are strained to the limit by new responsibilities, it is being suffocated by criticism and doubt.
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