ABSTRACT
To meet this increasing threat of destabilization of the international order and of legitimate national governments, and the growing menace of communal strife as illustrated in the Balkans, Africa and India, the world will need something tougher than the rather gentlemanly UN peacekeeping operations of the 1970s and 1980s. The UN had some modest successes in the Middle East in 1956, when it terminated the war in Sinai—onlyto fail to keep the peace in 1967 - and it resolved an even more dangerous situation at Suez in 1973. Though it was unable to prevent the Greek Cypriot coup which provoked a Turkish invasion in 1974, it has otherwise generally contained the conflict in Cyprus for twenty years. But these operations worked only when both parties to the conflict were content for the UN to restrain the conflict.
