Discuss the growing role of the General Assembly in the post-cold war stage of world politics. (10 marks)
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UN IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
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Peace" procedure. The aim of these innovations was to make the Organization in a way function even in the Cold War environment.
After the fading away of the Cold War, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there was a brief movement of hope and great expectations for the UN. It was believed that, at last the Organization could now start perform its original role as it was designed in the Charter. At that time, collective response to the Iraq's aggression against Kuwait strengthened the hopes for the future role of the UN in maintaining international peace and security. But, the Gulf War became the last case of the traditional kind of interstate conflicts in the post-Cold War era. On the contrary, many Intra-state disputes, kept frozen during the Cold War, exploded. Moreover, with the end of the Gulf War, the UN's new kind of operations in the name of humanitarian intervention started. Consequently, there was a dramatic demand for the UN peacekeeping operations to respond to all kinds of conflicts taking place in different parts of the world. In response, the UN had to ungergo a remarkable renaissance in its efforts to deal world's problems since the end of the Cold War.
The scope of this article is this to analyze the UN's changing role in the maintenance of international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. Within this scope, the UN collective security, peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations will be examined. Reform proposals to adapt the UN into the changing circumstances of the post-Cold War environment will be also analyzed. The main objective is to examine whether the UN has been successful in dealing with the challenges to interational peace and security, and in conflict management in the post-Cold War era. This will be analyzed both in terms of conflict management and of structural reforms.