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The UN Military Staff Committee?€ Occasional Paper Series, No.19, (Los Angeles: California State University, 1990), 31 Pages The UN Military Staff Committee The UN Military Staff Committee is a misunderstood organ, and never really worked as it was initially envisaged. This book charts its historic development as a means to explain the continuous debate about the reactivation of the Military Staff Committee and, more generally, the unsatisfied need for the Security Council to have a mili- tary advisory body so that it does not only depend on the Secretariat to make its decisions on military and security affairs. The author takes a clear stand for the establishment of a military committee with real weight in the decision-making process of the Security Council related to peace operations. The Security Council remains the only international body making decisions in peace and security, authorizing military deployment without advice from a col- lective body of military experts and advisers. Recreating such a body is the missing part of all UN reform structures undertaken in past years. As the number of UN troops deployed increases, this book will be an important read for all students and scholars of international organisations, security studies and international relations. Alexandra Novosseloff is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the International Peace Institute in New York. She is also a research associate at the Centre Thucydide of the University Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas where she held her PhD in Political Science and International Relations. She has written a number of books, policy reports and articles on the UN Security Council and on UN peacekeeping. Global Institutions Edited by Thomas G. 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Patrick Cottrell Global Governance and China (2018) edited by Scott Kennedy This page intentionally left blank The UN Military Staff Committee Recreating a Missing Capacity Alexandra Novosseloff First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 Alexandra Novosseloff The right of Alexandra Novosseloff to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 9781138042209 (hbk) ISBN: 9781315173863 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books Contents List of illustrations viii Acknowledgments x Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 1 History of the improbable creation of the UN Military Staff Committee 5 2 The consequences of the paralysis of the Military Staff Committee 54 3 Recurrent attempts at reform and reactivation of the Military Staff Committee since 1948 87 4 Current developments and looking into the future 120 Conclusion 144 Bibliography 150 Index 152 Illustrations Figures 1.1 A meeting of the Military Staff Committee of 4 February 1946. 25 1.2 Announcement of a meeting of the MSC, 2017 29 1.3 Suggested layout for structure of Military Staff Committee by the British Foreign Office in 1944 33 2.1 Departments of the UN Secretariat in 1946 63 2.2 Structures of the Department of Security Council Affairs in 1946 63 2.3 Organization of the Office of Military Affairs 73 2.4 Structure of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in 2001 78 2.5 Structure of the peace and security architecture in the UN Secretariat in 2017 80 4.1 Meeting of the MSC with the military advisers of the Elected Ten, November 2017 121 5.1 The MSC with the military advisers of the non-permanent members in the Security Council chamber, November 2017 145 Tables 1.1 Staffing of the secretariat of the Military Staff Committee 37 1.2 Nationalities of the liaison officers of the Military Staff Committee 38 1.3 Estimate of the overall strength of the armed forces at the disposal of the UN Security Council 43 2.1 List of the Military Advisers of the Secretary-General 72 4.1 Number of field missions led by the Military Staff Committee (as of end of 2017) 125 List of illustrations ix Boxes 1.1 Chronology of the work of substance of the Military Staff Committee since 1946 7 1.2 List of projects, declarations and proposals for the establishment of a new international organization (1940–1945) 11 1.3 Functions of Security and Armaments Commission (US Proposal) 15 1.4 Tentative proposals by the United Kingdom for a General International Organization (22 July 1944) 18 1.5 Military Staff Committee (Foreign Office Proposals, November 1944) 20 1.6 (Provisional) End of the work of the Military Staff Committee 45 2.1 Office of the Military Adviser of the Secretary-General in 1960s 69 3.1 Program of work of the Military Staff Committee in 2010–2011 112 4.1 Program of work of the Military Staff Committee in 2011–2012 123 4.2 Program of work of the Military Staff Committee in 2015–2016 127 Acknowledgments The idea of writing a book on the Military Staff Committee came out of several discussions on peacekeeping with military officers in New York. A discussion with General Thierry Lion, the current head of the French Military Mission to France’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, reminded me of the path taken by the MSC for some years, and in particular since I have published my earlier book on this mili- tary institution in 2008 (Le Comité d’état-major: Histoire d’un organe en sommeil, 2008, Centre Thucydide / Sociological Association of the UAE, 114 pages). Furthermore, as shown by the selected bibliography at the end of the book, no major book, article or study had been written in English on this institution since the beginning if the 1990s, the latest work being from Jane Boulden (“Prometheus Unbound: The History of the Military Staff Committee,” Aurora Papers, Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Centre for Global Security, no.19, August 1993, 43 pages).
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