Multi Lateral Peace Operations
When President Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, he stressed a new policy concerning a revived United Nations and the actions that would be taken by the United States concerning the "New World Order," a term coined by his predecessor George Bush depicting the post-Cold War international arena. Clinton had campaigned on the need for a multilateral organization to share costs and share risks of any peacekeeping venture. The Clinton Administration had made multilateralism a campaign issue and put it in the forefront of their foreign policy agenda. However, with the problems occurred during the initial trial period of this assertive multilateralism, exemplified by US military blunders in Somalia, Clinton and his advisors now found themselves questioning their own policies and preferences in foreign affairs especially in terms of multilateral peace operations. This case study delves into these issues and how Clinton and his administration sought answers to this problematic puzzle.
The case study completes while examining the choices Clinton finally made regarding multilateral peace operations. He used the advice of his two closest cabinet members to this issue in an attempt to reach a resolution: Powell and Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Albright wanted to practice assertive multilateralism and use the UN forces only when it benefited the US. She said that the US should always try a multilateralist approach to the respective situation, and if there is no sharing and they receive no international support but the issue at stake is in it vital national interest, the US will go on alone. Powell was against the practice as a whole. He did not look too kindly on the idea of the US engaging in an unknown war, at an unknown time and under an unknown command. Powell also hesitated to support a military venture with unknown goals, unknown missions and an unknown in the controlling offices. The finality of the situation was that the Clinton Administration was way too optim
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Approximate Word count = 675
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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