Peace(keeping) in Our Time
The UN as a Professional Military Manager
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20138331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Hillen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 1996-08-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The US Army War College Quarterly Parameters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-1723 • E-ISSN: 0031-1723 |
| Publisher | United States Army War College Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.55540/0031-1723.1792 |
| OpenAlex | W3134080307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
How can you get very far, If you don't know Who You Are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know What You've Got?And if you don't know Which To Do, Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.--From The Tao of Pooh [1] It is ironic for the United Nations that, as a prelude to the celebrations of its 50th anniversary, the Secretary-General's most notable policy statement concerning the maintenance of international peace and security had themes of retreat and lowered expectations.In January 1995, the Secretary-General trimmed the sails of his ambitious 1992 Agenda for Peace, stating that neither the UN Secretariat nor the Security Council was the proper organization for managing large, complex, and ambitious military operations such as those in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.The New York Times noted that "the United Nations erred badly in straying from traditional peacekeeping into peace enforcement."[2]The Secretary-General himself wrote that the UN did not have "capacity to deploy, direct, [or] command and control [peace enforcement] operations . . .[and] it would be folly to attempt to do so at the present time when the organization is resource-starved and hard pressed to handle the less demanding peacemaking and peacekeeping responsibilities entrusted to it."[3] This was an explicit recognition of the failure of the UN's complex military operations and ambitious mandates of the peacekeeping missions in the former Yugoslavia and Somalia over the previous three years
Ancient history · Management · Military organization · Political science · Public relations · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2009 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |