Interventionism | United Nations Interventions: An Overview

As the United Nations sends more lightly armed peacekeepers into civil wars to protect civilians and get relief supplies through, the world body is encountering a new set of practical and institutional problems.

New Challenges
With 70,000 peacekeepers deployed in 17 missions around the world [as of June 1994] (such operations cost an estimated $3.2 billion in 1993), the challenges are mounting:

• The job is getting more complicated and dangerous. Convoys often are pilfered, delayed, or blocked. In the absence of lasting cease-fires, relief...


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