Showing papers on "Crisis management published in 1968"
TL;DR: The United Nations intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the largest and most daring U.N. experiment on record as discussed by the authors, which was unique, controversial, and costly.
Abstract: The strangely unreal debate on the feasibility of United Nations intervention in Rhodesia or South Africa (to overthrow “colonialist” regimes) or in Vietnam (to stop or deescalate a war) would benefit from a more serious examination of the largest and most daring U.N. experiment on record. The Congo peacekeeping operation was unique, controversial and costly. The growing body of empirical data about this four-year operation provides a solid basis for understanding the severe limits of the United Nations as an instrument for political reform and crisis management in the Third World, to say nothing of the more difficult tasks of state-building and nation-building.
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