ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses several important questions: How did the peacekeeping regime in the Middle East evolve? How was it changed? How were the guiding principles and procedures for conducting peacekeeping operations during the Cold War adapted or changed? What were the consequences for the peacekeeping regime as these changes became institutionalized? The ad hoc structure, guiding principles, and operational functions of peacekeeping designed by UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold during the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force in 1956 had both immediate and long-term effects on the role of the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security through the creation of a peacekeeping regime. As was described in Chapter 3 above, UNEF became the model for subsequent UN peacekeeping missions and served as the catalyst for the norms, principles, rules and procedures developed by Hammarskjold for a peacekeeping regime in the Middle East.
