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Changes in its role in overcoming obstacles to international peace.

At its founding one of the UN's most publicized advantages over its predecessor, the League of Nations, was the fact that it was a peace organization "with teeth." This somewhat unattractive phrase referred to Chapter VII of the Charter and the possibility of military force being put at the disposal of the Security Council. In fact this provision of the Charter was one of the first victims of East-West disagreement, and, although the Military Staff Committee met regularly for many years and in the early years held voluminous discussions, the actual military arrangements foreseen in Chapter VII never became a reality. The assumption of the continuing unanimity of the great powers, which particularly affected this part of the Charter, proved to be illusory almost at once, while the idea that the Organization could not and should not take collective action against one of the great powers has continued, with the partial exception of Korea, to be respected. Thus it has become increasingly clear that the United Nations can neither deal with an aggression arising from a great-power conflict nor use the military resources of the great powers directly in dealing with other breaches of the peace, since such a use might all too easily project the great-power struggle onto the situation being dealt with. The development of new forms of peace-keeping machinery have in part been the response of the Organization to this dilemma.

The United Nations has tried to solve many of the world's most pressing problems through its global conferences. This book examines the history, organization and politics of these conferences and assesses their successes and failures.

THE COLLAPSE OF SUPERPOWER RIVALRY BOTH ALLOWS AND REQUIRES INCREASED PEACEKEEPING AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS BY THE UNITED NATIONS. THE DRAMATIC GLOBAL CHANGES ARE PRESENTING AN HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY FOR STRENGTHENING THE U.N., ESPECIALLY IF NECESSARY CHANGES ARE MADE TO EMPOWER THE ORGANIZATION AND INCREASE ITS EFFICIENCY. AMONG THE U.N.'S PRESSING NEEDS ARE A SPECIAL FUND FOR QUICK DEPLOYMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS AND STANDBY ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPECIALLY TRAINED TROOPS.

This book provides the first analytic account of the United Nations relief operation in Bangladesh. Written by a United Nations staff member involved in the operation, it reflects his direct access to archives and thus offers a doubly valuable description of the inner workings of an international organization. The unusually large relief program in Bangladesh has been described as ""a rare example of international cooperation that has enlarged the scope of constructive United Nations action."" Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technolo

Analyzes the problems and chances of a reform of the Security Council with regard to membership, decision-making processes, and right of veto of permanent members, in light the SC's inability in 1998 to agree on effective responses to crisis situations; responsibility of the US to bring about reform. Summary in German p. 421.