1st Edition

The UN Military Staff Committee Recreating a Missing Capacity

By Alexandra Novosseloff Copyright 2018
172 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

172 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The UN Military Staff Committee is a misunderstood organ, and never really worked as it was initially envisaged. This book charts its historic development as a means to explain the continuous debate about the reactivation of the Military Staff Committee and, more generally, the unsatisfied need for the Security Council to have a military advisory body so that it does not only depend on the... Read more

Introduction

  1. History of the improbable creation of the UN Military Staff Committee
  2. The consequences of the paralysis of the Military Staff Committee
  3. Recurrent attempts at reform and reactivation since the Cold War
  4. Current developments and looking into the future

Conclusion

Biography

Alexandra Novosseloff is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the International Peace Institute in New York. She is also a research associate at the Centre Thucydide of the University Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas where she held her PhD in Political Science and International Relations. She has written a number of books, policy reports and articles on the UN Security Council and on UN peacekeeping.