Washington Should Beware of U.N. Peace Monitors in South Africa

Publication Date: October 1992

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Thomas P. Sheehy

Research Area: Government; International relations

Keywords: Africa

Type: Brief

Coverage: South Africa

Abstract:

If South Africa erupts into full-scale violence, the United States could find itself under tremendous pressure to participate in, or even lead, a United Nations peacekeeping operation there. Participation in such a U.N. force, similar to the one now in Yugoslavia, would not be in the U.S. national interest.