BETWEEN EMPIRE AND COMMUNITY: The United States and Multilateralism 2001-2003: A Mid-Term Assessment: MINIMUM PUBLIC ORDER: U.S. Peacekeeping and Nation-Building: The Evolution of Self-Interested Multilateralism
In: Berkeley Journal of International Law, Jg. 21 (2003), S. 804
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In the days leading up to the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush declared that, if elected, one of his first actions would be to withdraw American troops from peacekeeping operations in faraway places, especially U.S. troops in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia. This did not happen. Two years later, the United States remains as ensconced in peacekeeping operations as it was during the Clinton administration. A combination of factors, foremost among them the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has caused Bush to reconsider his unilateralist and isolationist stance and to remain committed to peacekeeping operations across the globe. Peacekeeping and nation-building operations, which require extensive logistical planning and military resources, have generally been the responsibility of international organizations, namely the United Nations. The U.N. authorizes peacekeeping operations on the principle that an impartial multilateral presence supporting a truce will increase the willingness of those in conflict to follow through with their negotiations. The U.N. adds legitimacy to a peacekeeping operation since "action [is] taken on behalf of a global organization rather than on the basis of national or regional interests."n1 Unilateral action, to the contrary, is not only less desirable, but also less effective. Quite simply, solitary states do not have the financial wherewithal, military capacity, or political capital to effectively undertake such comprehensive and complex operations. In assessing the U.S. role in peacekeeping, the question, then, does not turn on whether it conducts peacekeeping missions in a unilateral or multilateral fashion, since the United States has ...
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BETWEEN EMPIRE AND COMMUNITY: The United States and Multilateralism 2001-2003: A Mid-Term Assessment: MINIMUM PUBLIC ORDER: U.S. Peacekeeping and Nation-Building: The Evolution of Self-Interested Multilateralism
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Vuong, Quynh-Nhu |
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Zeitschrift: | Berkeley Journal of International Law, Jg. 21 (2003), S. 804 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2003 |
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