Abstract
In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War the United States seemed to move toward a more multilateral foreign policy, yet throughout the 1990s the United States has repeatedly failed to support and promote important United Nations initiatives designed to promote peace, to ensure a more stable system of international justice and to protect human rights everywhere. My hope for this thesis has been to test the American rhetorical commitment to peace, justice and human rights as proclaimed by both George Bush, Sr. and Bill Clinton in the early 1990s against the record of American involvement in United Nations aactions over that past decade. The thesis is arranged in five chapters each dealing with aspects of the American involvement with the United Nations.