NATO Peace Support Operations: a brief institutional view
- Autores: Andrés B. Muñoz Mosquera, Nikoleta P. Chalanouli
- Localización: Peacekeeping: global perspectives, challenges and impacts / coord. por Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, 2018, ISBN 9781536134315, págs. 283-306
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
UN-mandated Peace Support Operations are established not only by Security Council resolutions, but also by the General Assembly. In many of those Peace Support Operations NATO is a major contributor. NATO's crisis management capacity, created by NATO's strategic concepts, has permitted the organization to adapt to this new function, which contributes to the keystone of the United Nations system, i.e., the maintenance of international peace and security.
This paradigm begs not only operational questions, but also others in the institutional realm, which are not usually addressed by publicists, some of those questions relate to the consideration of NATO as a regional organization per Chapter VIII of the Charter, and the legal position of institutions created to support the implementation of Peace Support Operations.
This chapter intends to cover several aspects of Peace Support Operations to which NATO contribute to. It is a fact that PSO create fit-for-purpose institutions, and these require a degree of independence. For that PSO retain a sui generis legal position, which is necessary in order to implement the UN mandate. In any case, States always keep both the decision -making power and the forces to execute PSO.
