In eight pages this paper evaluates if the United Nations' peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia should be supported by the U.S. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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How will US involvement truly improve the situation if at all? Is it truly necessary that the entire world follow Americas democratic example? SHOULD THE UNITED
STATES SUPPORT THE UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN BOSNIA? by (c) October 2001 paper properly! I.
INTRODUCTION Assessing whether or not the United States should support the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bosnia requires the student to consider myriad issues related to such a comprehensive question.
Is Americas presence warranted or is it merely a political move? How will US involvement truly improve the situation if at all? Is it truly necessary that
the entire world follow Americas democratic example? "The purpose of a UN peacekeeping force is to sustain and support a stable environment conducive to peace negotiations and a
lasting settlement. That goal presupposes that such an environment exists, at least in the form of an observed cease-fire, and some willingness to negotiate on the part of the belligerents"
(Hillen, 1995, p. PG). II. THE QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY America believes - and rightly so - that the rest of the world would benefit from adopting a democratic political
structure. What has worked for over two hundred years within the United States is surely to improve the existence of oppressed people upon a global level. As commonsensical
as this assertion may be, it is not met with open arms in such places as Bosnia, where the UN is needed in order to implement a peacekeeping mission.
Is it Americas place to support this mission, or should the democratic nation just tend to bettering its own domestic affairs? Americans have