Towards Rebuilding a Failed State: The United Nations Intervention in the Post-Civil War Sierra Leone

The end of the communist ideology, the disintegrationof the Soviet behemoth, the dynamism of glasnost andperestroika introduced by the Gorbachev’s administration inthe defunct USSR, and the fall of communist backedgovernments in Eastern Europe signalled the birth of a newinternational geostrategic, economic, and political order. ANew World Order where the ideological bipolarity and East-West contestations between the United States (US) and theformer USSR had given way to a unipolar world on which theUS is riding as a colossus. The thawing of the East-WestCold War and the relaxation of tensions between thesuperpowers made the world to believe, albeit erroneously,that the era of total peace had arrived, and by extension, thesame for the Third World countries (TWCs) of which Africa isnot an exception.