ABSTRACT

Peacekeeping during the Cold War never lived up to the expectations of its advocates. Ernst Haas, in his study of the impact of United Nations (UN) intervention during the Cold War era, found that success was relative. He rated the first United Nations peacekeeping mission, the 1956-1967 United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), a “great” success in isolating a dispute, a “limited” success in stopping hostilities, and not a success in settling a dispute. Haas found that between 1945 and 1985 the United Nations had less impact in managing disputes after 1965, was not consistently successful in stopping ongoing hostilities after the early 1960s, and that its record in settling disputes “has almost always been dismal.”1