Peace, Power, and the United Nations: A Security System for the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780367297961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Joseph P. Lorenz

Opis

Joseph Lorenz argues that today’s major threats to peace and stability -- the regional expansionism of middle-power dictatorships and the steady run of ethnic and factional wars within states -- require a modified collective-security structure based on the capacity of concerned states to take prompt preventive action.

Spis treści

Introduction and Summary -- Collective Security and Its Antecedents -- Collective Security in the League of Nations Scheme -- The UN Charter Approach to Managing Power -- Collective Force Theory and National Power -- Patterns for a UN Force: The Five-Power Talks of 1946 -- Korea and the Limits of Voluntary Enforcement Action -- Peacekeeping and Peaceful Settlement: Namibia and the Arab-Israeli Dispute -- The Gulf War and Its Implications for an International Deterrent Force -- Somalia and the Ambiguities of Peace Enforcement -- Problems on the Path to an International Deterrent System -- The Charter of the United Nations

O autorze

Joseph P. Lorenz is at the U.S. Institute for Peace.