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A rapid reaction capability for the United Nations: past failures and future possibilities

The post-Cold War era saw the extraordinary expansion of UN activity in the maintenance of global peace and security. Such a rapid expansion led to organizational over-stretch and failure and many in the international community began searching for ways to improve UN peacekeeping by reducing deployment time. In the mid-1990s, the Dutch, Canadian and Danish governments released proposals for a UN rapid reaction capability. Unfortunately, of the three proposals only the Danish proposed Stand-by High Readiness Brigade (SHIRBRIG) was implemented. The lack of movement toward UN rapid reaction is due to a number of factors, namely the loss of post-Cold War idealism, a disconnection with the political reality of the time and cost concerns. More fundamentally, rapid reaction posed a threat to state primacy.

  1. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/254
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:MWU.1993/254
Date22 June 2006
CreatorsLieverse, Amanda D.
ContributorsFergusson, Jim (Political Studies), Buteux, Paul (Political Studies) Byrne, Sean (Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice)
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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