Building a better UN: yes, we need it. But we need it to be more effective than it has been. Can the UN fix itself?(United Nations)
American Prospect, The, July, 2004 by Rozen, Laura
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IF ONE HAD ASKED THE LEADERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS to choose a test case through which they could demonstrate the organization's efficacy before the world, they would hardly have chosen Iraq. With a volatile security situation, too few peacekeeping troops, and a recent political history that has bitterly divided the members of the UN Security Council, Iraq is just the kind of politically charged, high-risk intervention that has recently overwhelmed the UN in places like Bosnia.
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But Iraq, of course, with a strong push from the Bush administration, has chosen the UN. With the ...
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