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“Even the worthwhile functions it has served, the achievements it has had in Namibia, for instance, are going to be far less impressive than they might otherwise have been.” With the United States especially reluctant to support efforts to strengthen the U.N., some diplomats are prodding Europe and Japan to pick up the slack. “It’s a foolish idea to assume that every time anything happens the only country that can do anything is the United States,” Urquhart says. “It isn’t like 1945, when the United States was the only country still on its feet. There are some nice, big, grownup countries out there, some of which are quite rich. But there remains this hopelessly defeatist attitude that if the United States doesn’t want it, it won’t happen.” There is another

reason, Urquhart says, why the United Nations’ member governments should not allow the confusion over the U.N.’s role as global peacekeeper to undermine its place in world affairs. “In fifty years’ time, the United Nations won’t be judged on having failed in Bosnia,” he says. “It will be judged on whether it did anything about poverty, economic imbalance, and the environment. Those are the forces that are going to shape the future one way or another, not what happens in Bosnia.” NOTES 1. Carroll J. Doherty, “Congress’ Foreign Policy Role At Issue in Veto Override,” Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 5, 1995, 2386-2387 2. For background see, “Foreign Policy Burden,” The CQ Researcher, August 20 1993, 721-744 3. For background see, “A

Revitalized United Nations in the 1990s,” Editorial Research Reports, July 27, 1990, 429-444 4. For background on the U.N. budget, see Jeffrey Laurenti, National Taxpayers, International Organizations: Sharing the Burden Of Financing the United Nations, United Nations Association of the United States, 1995, 29 5. Speaking at a June 11, 1995, press conference with President Clinton in Clairmont, N.H. 6. Bob Dole, “Who’s an Isolationist?” The New York Times, June 6, 1995 7. For background, see Carroll J. Doherty, “House Approves Overhaul of Agencies, Policies,” Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, January 28, 1995 291-292 8. Speth spoke June 25, 1995, before the United Nations Association of the United States’ National Convention in San Francisco, Calif. 9. For

background, see “Non-Proliferation Treaty at 25,” The CQ Researcher, January 27, 1995, 73-96 10. See the United Nations Association of the United States, The United Nations at 40, April 1985 11. Material in this section is based on Sandrine Teyssonneyre, How to Do Business with the United Nations (1995) 7-10 12. See Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “Back to the Womb? Isolationism’s Renewed Threat,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995, 2-8 13. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace, June 1992 14. Report of the Commission on Global Governance, Our Global Neighborhood (1995), 236-237 15. Ibid., 237 16. For an analysis of the Somalia missions, see Chester A. Crocker, “The Lessons of Somalia,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 1995, 2-8 17. See “Short Memories,” The Economist,

June 17, 1995, 42-47 18. For a more flattering assessment of Boutros-Ghali’s stewardship, see Stanley Meisler, “Dateline U.N.: A New Hammar-skjold?” Foreign Policy, spring 1995, 180-197 19. Helms spoke March 21, 1995, at his committee’s hearings on legislation affecting the U.N. and other foreign policy issues. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, “A New Departure on Development,” Foreign Policy, spring 1995, 44-49 Childers, Erskine, and Brian Urquhart, Renewing the United Nations System, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1994 Dole, Bob, “Shaping America’s Global Future,” Foreign Policy, spring 1995, 29-43 Gordon, Wendell, The United Nations At the Crossroads of Reform, M.E. Sharpe, 1994 Hall, Brian, “Blue Helmets, Empty Guns,” The New York Times

Magazine, January 2, 1994, 8-25+ Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century, The Ford Foundation, 1995 Laurenti, Jeffrey, National Taxpayers, International Organizations: Sharing the Burden of Financing the United Nations, United Nations Association of the United States, 1995 Meisler, Stanley, United Nations: The First Fifty Years, Grove/Atlantic, 1995 Righter, Rosemary, Utopia Lost: The United Nations and World Order, Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., “Back to the Womb? Isolationism’s Renewed Threat,” Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995, 2-8 Thornburgh, Dick, “Today’s United Nations in a Changing World,” The American University Journal of International Law and Policy, fall