The UN and Iraq

Paper Summary:

The paper contends that although the United Nations presents itself to the world as a neutral body, it is plagued by the rivalries between its member states. The paper discusses how rivalries and bias at the UN were especially troublesome during the Security Council debates preceding the invasion of Iraq by the United States. The paper contends that ultimately, the UN is going to be plagued by bias, for its member states will always be far too inclined to place their own national interests above the interests of the international community as a whole.

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"Over the past sixty years United Nations operations have reflected the peacekeeping mission statement of the UN, and have most commonly been implemented in order to supervise and help maintain cease-fires, to assist in troop withdrawals, and to provide an internationally supervised buffer zone between opposing and hostile forces. However, peace-keeping operations are flexible instruments of United Nations policy and have been adopted to a variety of uses, including helping to implement the final settlement of a conflict. (Rikhye 55-61)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, Seyom. The Illusion of Control, Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2003.
• "Bush and Iraq." USA Today, February 9, 2003.
• Hamilton, William. "Bush Began to Plan War Three Months after 9/11."
• The Washington Post, April 16, 2004. Rikhye, Indar. The Politics and Practice of United Nations Peacekeeping: Past, Present, and Future. Toronto: Canadian Peacekeeping Press, 2000.

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