TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Seyom
AU  - Lovelace,Douglas C.
ED  - Army War College (U.S.).
TI  - Multilateral constraints on the use of force: a reassessment 
SN  - 1584872314
AV  - UA 646.3 B877m 2006
U1  - 355/.0310973 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - [Carlisle Barracks, PA]
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
KW  - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
KW  - Alliances
KW  - War (International law)
KW  - Combined operations (Military science)
KW  - United States
KW  - Military relations
KW  - Military policy
N1  - "March 2006."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-43); Introduction -- Multilateralism: its scope and variety -- The benefits and costs of multilateralism -- Multilateralism in the post-unipolar world: the impact of polyarchy -- The impact of military transformation -- Conclusion: toward a modular multilateralism -- Recommendations; Electronic version also available on the SSI website
N2  - The difficulty of achieving a multilateral consensus in the NATO Alliance can create more of a crisis than does the difficulty of generating an effective UN response to threats to international peace and security. NATO was supposed to be America's prime multilateral institution for obtaining legitimation and support of military action when the UN Security Council was paralyzed because of the veto. But as it has turned out Washington's ability to obtain a Brussels imprimatur for U.S-led multilateral military operations has become almost as hard as (and in some cases even harder than) obtaining UN endorsement. And whereas proposals to change the UN Security Council's voting rules have become a matter for open discourse among statespersons, such discourse with respect to the North Atlantic Council is shied away from as subversive of the ethos of the Alliance
UR  - http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB647.pdf
ER  -