Buch(elektronisch)2021

Protecting the global civilian from violence: UN discourses and practices in fragile states

In: Global politics and the responsibility to protect

Kivimäki, Timo

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The focus of the book -- Data and methods: getting to the roots of UN success and failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Theories and concepts -- The great cosmopolitan transformation -- Preventing violence by means of military operation -- What about UN interventions? Are they any better? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Pitfalls of unilateral protective military operations by great powers -- Introduction -- Consequences of unilateral protection: level of individual conflicts -- Consequences of unilateral protection: level of target countries -- Target regime's relationship with the operation: genuine and non-genuine interventions -- Level of state fragility -- Agent of protective military operation -- Path to failure of protection -- Unilateralism -- Selfish humanitarianism -- Ethnicization of protection -- Power centricity and militarism in cosmopolitan protection -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Measuring success of UN military operations -- UN military operations -- Timeline of fatalities -- Timeline of state fragility -- Fatalities before, during and after UN operations -- State fragility before, during and after UN operations -- Selection bias: consent, great power consensus and the existence of a peace agreement as covariates in the development of the n -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 UN approach and identity: Beyond unilateralism, selfishness and militarism -- Introduction -- Unilateralism vs. collectivist paralysis: is too little too late better than too much too soon? -- The primacy of the conflicting parties as agents of protection -- Consent and impartiality -- Beyond selfish protection -- Who does the UN protect?.

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Protecting the global civilian from violence: UN discourses and practices in fragile states

In: Global politics and the responsibility to protect

Kivimäki, Timo

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping. Analysing statistics of state fragility and fatalities of violence, it reveals that the UN has managed to save tens of thousands of lives with its peacekeeping: a surprising statistic given the media consensus about the UN's powerlessness and inefficiency. Using computer-assisted discourse analysis of resolutions from the UN Security Council, 1993-2019, the book offers data that describe the character and development of UN approach to the protection of civilians from violence. It then links the data to the statistics of conflict fatalities and state fragility to reveal, by means of qualitative and quantitative analysis, when, where, how and why the UN has been successful at protecting civilians. Two reasons for the UN's success are highlighted in the book as being statistically most significant. First, the organization offers local ownership to peaceful solutions by considering conflicting parties as the primary agents of protection. Second, the UN approach is much less power-oriented than unilateral approaches by the great powers: protection for the UN does not mean deterrence or destruction, but rather, support for local protectors of civilians. However, strong great power influence on such operations tends to weaken UN's ability to save lives.

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