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...with Summers. The position is considered to be a stepping stone to the Federal Reserve chairmanship, which is currently held by Ben S. Bernanke ’75. Richard Zeckhauser, Summers’ close friend and colleague at the Harvard Kennedy School, said that when Bernanke’s term expires in 2010, Obama will likely name Summers to take his place. “I’d be surprised if he weren’t seriously considered for it,” Zeckhauser said, adding that Summers could also end up in a senior position at the World...
...limit. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. South Kivu [a province of Congo] is tense. So is Ituri [another province in the country], and we have the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda] in the northeast. We are doing short-term reinforcements, but we simply do not have an effective rapid-reaction force...
...with a certain function - to reinforce the authority of the state. But now the [U.N. Security] Council will have to reconsider this. Events of the last two months have just run over [our mission]. The Congolese army needs root and branch reform, but security-sector reform is a long-term project. So how do we deal with the situation in the meantime? Protection is our mission. But if those we are protecting are also involved, it's a very difficult situation...
What implications does the success or failure of MONUC have for other peacekeeping operations? Every case is different. Darfur is very different. Every time a U.N. peacekeeping force deploys, it raises lots of questions. But yes, there are issues raised by our experience that will have a long-term effect. There is a very fine line between peacekeeping and peace enforcement. Our mission was equipped for peacekeeping. And as one of my officers says, you don't go to war in blue helmets and white tanks. When we shift from a monitoring group to one that takes on military elements...
...peacekeeping a stopgap solution rather than a long term one? If so, does that mean peacekeeping can never have great moments of achievement? There are a number of peacekeeping missions. We try to be a help to the process of national political accommodation. We can never substitute for that, however; only bolster the forces taking part and help stabilize the nation. We assist the national process, but we do not replace it. We're not NATO. We're not an army of occupation. We're not a colonial army. We're never going to take on points of responsibility that...