The Council has recently dispatched more military peacekeeping missions than in its first forty-five years combined--and it has sent out a number of election teams, police forces and units of human rights monitors. The Council has imposed economic sanctions (seven sanction regimes were in place in 1994), mandated arms inspections and disarmament measures, and acted on a wide variety of international security issues. But to many countries, this new activism has often appeared high-handed and undemocratic.