The U.N. Collective Security System:Practices and Challenges─A Study of Two Persian Gulf Wars

• Main Authors: Ti Cho, 卓迪
• Other Authors: 張京育
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39495670863335714592

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所碩士班 === 94 === The United Nations（UN）, as an international organization for maintaining international peace and security, in addition to acting the function of an international forum, the criterion of it is the authority of nations when they associate with other nations.In order to protect the existence and sovereignty of individual nation, the Charter of the UN clearly defines the apparatus and ways to fulfill the concept of “collective security” to be the standard to dissolve or relieve international disputes. During the Cold War, the most crucial problem to international peace and security is the opposition of ideology between the Soviet Union and the United States, and it made the “great power unanimity” impossible to be fulfilled. Dose it mean that the collective security system will be fulfilled when the Cold War ended? This thesis takes two Persian Gulf wars as examples, through history compare method to study the process of the usage of the collective security system by the UN to maintain international peace and security, to treat the contemporary challenges of UN collective security system. Through the study of the application of the UN collective security system in two Persian Gulf wars, we can discover that the collective security system not only faces challenge in the assumption "great power unanimity", due to the strategy of unilateralism of the United States, but also faces the unprecedented difficult in how to judge the threat of peace or the limit of self-defense right after the 911 terrorism attack. However, there is no nation can exist with isolationism, in order to adapt the gradually complicated international environment, all nations should obtain the consensus through coordination and cohesion to dissolve the threat of international peace and security together under the existing power structure.