Wandering in the Void: Charting the U.N.'s New Strategic Role

Abstract

domain of military activity?a vaguely defined no-mans-land lying somewhere between traditional peacekeeping and enforcement?for which it lacks any guiding operational concept. It has mere ly ratcheted up the traditional peace keeping mechanism in an attempt to respond to wholly new security chal lenges. The result is that the majority of the nearly 70,000 blue-helmeted peace keepers now out in the field serve in con texts for which peacekeeping was not intended. Even as the demand for these U.N. troops increases almost daily, they continue to function under rules of