ABSTRACT
It is ironic that, at the same moment that the international community seems to have discovered that international security might be fostered through cooperative security measures, the United Nations has used its post-Cold War freedoms to exercise its enforcement capacities and to entertain their further development. The beginning of superpower cooperation and the experience of the Gulf War stirred a discussion of the meaning and merits of collective security, and the drift of peacekeeping into peace enforcement created a gray zone called “Chapter VI-1/2” operations.1 Such developments reflect an underlying sentiment that as a security organization the United Nations should possess robust enforcement mechanisms. Simply put, it is not enough to be a forum for considering threats to international peace and security; the United Nations must possess the mechanisms to combat them as well.
