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Examine the peace-keeping efforts of the United Nations Organization.

  • UPSC 2009
  • The World after World War II

Peacekeeping is the UN's most improvised achievement — nowhere named in the Charter, it grew case by case into the organisation's best-known practical tool.

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  • Origins: watching, not enforcing (1948–56)
  • Classical peacekeeping through the Cold War (1956–88)
  • Post-Cold War expansion and multidimensional missions
  • The crisis of overreach: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia
  • Toward multidimensional, robust peacekeeping today

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