Operation Restore Hope: Strengthening Multilateral Operations.

摘要

The United States' 1994 National Security Strategy emphasized the strengthening of the United Nations' (UN) capability to conduct multilateral operations. This thesis analyzes U.S. policy decisions made during the 1992- 1994 Somali crisis and Operation Restore Hope to determine if the United States strengthened the United Nations' ability to conduct multilateral peace operations. Using criteria outlined in Joint Doctrine Publication 3-07, 'Peace Operations,' and by examining critical U.S. policy decisions made throughout the crisis, the research determined that U.S. policy decisions did not strengthen UN capabilities to conduct multilateral peace operations. U.S. policy decisions hindered the perceived legitimacy, credibility, and ability of the United Nations to foster political reconciliation. The implications of the United States' and the United Nation's experience in Somalia had a long lasting impact on the perceptions of U.S. resolve in the face of casualties and UN capabilities to organize and lead a multilateral peace operation.