UN Military Staff Committee

<p>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 military advisory body so that it does not only depend on the Secretariat to make its decisions on military and security affairs. </p><p></p><p>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 collective body of military experts and advisers. Recreating such a body is the missing part of all UN reform structures undertaken in past years. </p><p></p><p>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. </p>