New Multilateralism and the Reform of peacekeeping Operations

Nakon sloma bipolarnog svijeta u krizu su dospjele multilateralne inicijative i organizacije, no istodobno raste njihovo značenje. Autor pobliže analizira jedan oblik multilateralnog angažmana, mirove operacije UN-a. U posljednjih pet godina znatno je porastao njihov broj, a najznačajnija se mirovna operacija vodi na području bivše Jugoslavije. Iako su mnoga iskustva te operacije negativna, ona bi u budućnosti mogla biti od koristi za reformu koncepta mirovnih operacija. Autor osobito naglašava nužnost da se mirovne operacije od zamrzavanja sukoba pomaknu prema nametanju mira te da se potonji cilj strogo razdvoji od humanitarnih zadataka, koje valja prepustiti za to specijaliziranim međunarodnim organizacijama. Mirovne se operacije trebaju razviti kao oblik multilateralnog intervencionizma, koji nedvojbeno ograničava suverenost pojedinih država i teži uspostavi reda. One se mogu nadopuniti i drugim sredstvima pritiska kojima raspolaže UN: sankcijama, diplomatskom izolacijom ili kontrolom naoružanja.After the collapse of the bipolar world, multilateral initiatives and organizations got into a crisis, but at the same time their importance increased. The author analyses one form of multilateral involvement, the UN peacekeeping operations. In the last five years, their number has significantly increased. The most important among them is one on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Although many aspects of that operation are negative, in the future they might prove useful for the reform of the concept of peacekeeping operations to make a shift from the prevention of hostilities towards the enforcement of peace as well as the need to separate this objective from humanitarian activities which should be assigned to specialized international organizations. The peacekeeping operations should evolve into a sort of multilateral interventionism which resolutely restricts invidual states\u27 sovereignity and strives at establishing order. They could be supplemented with other means of pressure at the UN\u27s disposal: sanctions, diplomatic isolation or arms control