C/L/247. "The United Nations framework, initially designed primarily to prevent aggressive war, has largely failed to contain violent international crises or to grapple with increases in the prevalence and intensity of civil war" (Cuellar, 2004). Critically discuss

The paper looks at the collective security regime established under the UN system identifying the shortcomings and failures of this system and discussing the supplementary nature of the UN collective security, the ambiguities of the UN Charter, the right to self-defence, the enlargement of the Security Council's mandate, etc.