Examining the efficacy of U.N. peace efforts, Dr. Ramesh Thakur
compares limited peacekeeping through U.N. authority with more
coercive means such as the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon. He
finds that the role of the U.S.-led MNF coalition cannot be
justified in terms of great-power responsibility for ensuring a
stable international order, since the coalition has attempted to
substitute military power for authoritative peacekeeping. When MNF
legitimacy was questioned and authority was challenged, the MNF's
use of force in response to those challenges switched the
coalition's role from third-party peacekeeper to factional
participant. As a result, every successive attempt to strengthen
the MNF mandate has further subordinated the concept of neutral
international peacekeeping to calculated support of national
interests. If reasoned attempts to keep the peace are not to
collapse into exercises in national self-interest, then
peacekeeping responsibilities must remain with the U.N., supported
by the great powers: Only the U.N. can provide an authoritative
exposition of values within the context of international society
and bestow international legitimacy upon peacekeeping activities;
only the great powers can back the U.N. with requisite force.
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