The Clinton Administration and Multilateral Peace Operations

The Clinton Administration and Multilateral Peace Operations
Author: Ivo H. Daalder (1960)
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Total Pages: 21
Release: 1995
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This case study describes the evolution of the Clinton administration's policy toward multilateral peace operations-focusing, in particular, on how the administration's initial enthusiasm for U.N. peacekeeping foundered over growing congressional and public opposition to U.S. involvement in Somalia. It poses questions about the shifting fortunes of bureaucratic actors, the strength and independence of the executive on matters relating to the use of force in the new international environment, and the inherent limits on the use of force in helping to resolve ethno-national conflicts and ease human suffering more generally.

Beyond the National Interest

Beyond the National Interest
Author: Jean-Marc Coicaud
Publisher: 成甲書房
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781601270078
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Whatever happened to multilateral peacekeeping? This is the central question Jean-Marc Coicaud explores in this penetrating scholarly examination of the period of robust UN-mandated peacekeeping missions in humanitarian crises. The most notable peace operations during this period were undertaken by the three leading NATO powers the United States foremost among them in the immediate post Cold War era. Yet, as Coicaud explains, the international democratic solidarity that unified their multilateral action against a Soviet threat was stretched thin in the post Cold War era, which manifested an entirely new set of threats to international security such as ethnic cleansing and failed states. The three leading Western powers were ill-equipped to handle them effectively in terms of the fundamental political theory and applied political philosophy that generally informed their traditional foreign policies. The book concludes with guidelines for more effective realization of international interests among the Western powers and an afterword on the book s lessons applied to Darfur."

Implications for U.N. Peacekeeping

Implications for U.N. Peacekeeping
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Total Pages: 6
Release: 1994
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The Clinton administration is currently in the process of determining what role the United Nations will play in achieving U.S. national interests, and how that role relates to multilateralism. A Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) on multilateral peace operations has not yet appeared, and the document will undoubtedly be influenced by current U.S. and U.N. operations in Somalia and prospective plans for Bosnia-Herzegovina. This article does not predict, nor depend on, the ultimate PDD. Whether the United States elects to participate exclusively in peacekeeping observer missions, as in the past, or moves more forcefully by putting logistic or combat units under U.N. operational control in peace-enforcement or peace-building operations remains to be seen. The proposals contained herein are designed to better support the United Nations, whatever the mission or degree of participation. The focus will be on organizational support, the enduring definitional problems associated with peace operations, and the importance of doctrinal harmonization.

Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism

Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism
Author: Leonie Murray
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415412773
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This volume re-examines the evidence surrounding the rise and fall of peacekeeping policy during the first Clinton Administration. Specifically, it asks: what happened to cause the Clinton Executive to abandon its previously favoured policy platform of humanitarian multilateralism? Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism aims to satisfy a large gap in our understanding of events surrounding 1990s peacekeeping policy, humanitarian intervention and the Rwandan genocide, as well as shedding some light on US policy on Africa, and the issues surrounding the current peacekeeping debate. Leonie Murray takes an unorthodox stance with regard to the role of public opinion on peacekeeping policy, and delves deeper into the roles that the legislature, the military, and in particular, the executive had to play in the development of US peacekeeping policy in the 1990s. The conclusions reached concerning the role of the United States and the International Community in the face of the Rwandan Genocide are of particular note in their departure from the accepted wisdom on the subject. This book will be of interest to students of peacekeeping, international relations, US foreign policy and humanitarian intervention.

Soldiers for Peace: Critical Operational Issues

Soldiers for Peace: Critical Operational Issues
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: International police
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As a power with global interests, the United States has a strong concern for successful peace operations. Seldom if ever will its interests be well served by failures, especially widely publicized and expensive failures that tend to discredit the United Nations. This report develops issues associated with peace operations conducted under authority of the United Nations, either through the United Nations system or by other agents. At the outset, it offers commentary on questions raised by The Clinton Administration's Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations' (hereafter Administration's Policy): Should the United States vote affirmatively? Should the United States participate with its own personnel? Every member state with a seat on the Security Council must answer the first question, and many member states will also have to consider whether they should contribute troops. But U.S. decisions carry the greatest weight and are often critical, especially its decision to participate. When the United States decides to participate in a peace operation, its immense power and prestige radically increase the chances for success.