Abstract
As the United Nations approaches its fiftieth year, a cardinal rule that has long governed its operations is in the midst of change. This paper examines the degree to which the norms and procedures governing intervention by the United Nations have shifted since the end of the Cold War. We argue that the change we see in the role of the United Nations in this area is an adaptation of the concept of collective security and that the definition of collective security should be widened considerably. We suggest that a useful heuristic device for analyzing collective security in the post-Cold War era is regime theory. We begin, therefore, by examining the legal underpinnings of intervention in the international system and the tenets of regime theory and then apply them to contemporary collective security operations.
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