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...says Kofi Annan, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, "because we have been asked to do too much with too little." In 1988, when U.N. peacekeepers won the Nobel Peace Prize, their numbers totaled just over 10,000. This year almost 80,000 blue helmets are deployed around a post-cold war world in which peace has only been achieved piecemeal. Troops still patrol truce lines, but now they also monitor elections, protect human rights, train local police, guard humanitarian relief deliveries and take up arms against those who get in their...
...former Soviet republics, the West not only sacrifices the independence of the people who live there, but undermines the fledgling democracy of Russia itself. No nation that enslaves another can truly be free. and if Russia isn't free, how can it be trusted as an ally in the post-Cold war world...
Foreign policy is confusing in the post-cold war world, and with the dizzying variations on isolationism and interventionism available to politicians and commentators, it's hard to keep straight where they stand on important conflicts. Here is a convenient, only slightly larger than wallet-size guide...
...besides earthquake relief. Bosnia will almost surely be a casualty of Somalia. In February, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said, "The world's response to the violence in the former Yugoslavia is a crucial test of how it will address the concerns of ethnic and religious minorities in the post-cold war world . . . Bold tyrants and fearful minorities are watching to see whether 'ethnic cleansing' is a policy the world will tolerate." They have their answer. With so many Americans disgusted with Clinton's handling of Somalia, it's hard to see how the President could command the public...
...else places like Somalia have to be handled in the old way. Not post-cold war, but again pre-cold war: given over in trusteeship to some great power willing and able to seize and rule it, as France once ruled Lebanon. Third World nations don't like that idea because it smacks of colonialism. And so it does. It is colonialism. But no one has come up with a better idea for saving countries like Somalia from themselves. Trusteeship means unified authority imposed by a real army taking orders from a single capital. That is certainly better than...