UNITED NATIONS IN A UNIPOLAR WORLD A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PEACE KEEPING IN EGYPT AND BOSNI
UNITED NATIONS IN A UNIPOLAR WORLD A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PEACE KEEPING IN EGYPT AND BOSNI
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1998-10
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ABDULLAHI MAKARFI, HASSAN
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Abstract
The International arena of politics through
history is shaped by what happens at a particular point
in time. Different events affects the world in different
ways. The Industrial revolution for example saw to the
building of big and heavy industries for economic and
defense purposes.
The second world war introduced the dimension of
bipolarity and the many decades of rivalry between two
camps who differed in economic and political belief in
what came to be known as the cold war.
The rivalry between these two camps became the
guiding principle of International political and economic
relations that encompasses and affected everybody
including those who do not belong to the two camps.
Virtually every aspect of international political as well
as economic relation was affected directly or indirectly
by this rivalry.
The long years of the rivalry also ensures that an
intricate pattern was built in international economic and
political relations so that every aspect of it no matter
how minute falls into this intricate pattern that had
been so tightly knitted that nothing escapes it.
However suddenly when there seems to be no softening
of the pattern short of an explosive collision, one end
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of the pattern collapsed bringing down the whole system.
To break the metaphor, the collapsed of the Soviet Union
brought an end to the cold war. The suddenness of its
collapsed had a recoiled effect on all those policies
that had been built on the narrow pattern of bipolar
world system.
The world appears to be caught unprepared including
the arch rival in the cold war the Western allies. A
whole new system will now have to emerge from the ruins
of the bipolar rivalry. It will now be quite interesting
to sit down and watch how mankind is going to build a new
pattern in international relations from the ruins of the
cold war.
The -scenes are as wide ranging as mans everyday
interaction. Wherever one picks will provide an
interesting insight as what is likely going to be the new
pattern of international relations.
The Bosnian crisis and the attempt at peace keeping
in the new era of unipolar world system by the United
Nation offers a tempting start.
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THIS IS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA IN PARTIAL
FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, FACULTY OF ARTS
AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.
OCTOBER, 1998
Keywords
UNITED NATIONS,, UNIPOLAR WORLD,, COMPARATIVE,, ANALYSIS,, PEACE KEEPING,, EGYPT,, BOSNIA