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This history of colonial legacies in UN peacekeeping operations from 1945-1971 reveals how United Nations peacekeeping staff reconfigured the functions of global governance and sites of diplomatic power in the post-war world. Despite peacekeeping operations being criticised for their colonial underpinnings, our understanding of the ways in which colonial actors and ideas influenced peacekeeping practices on the ground has been limited and imprecise. In this multi-archival history, Margot Tudor investigates the UN's formative armed missions and uncovers the officials that orchestrated a reinvention of colonial-era hierarchies for Global South populations on the front lines of post-colonial statehood. She demonstrates how these officials exploited their field-based access to perpetuate racial prejudices, plot political interference, and foster protracted inter-communal divisions in post-colonial conflict contexts. Bringing together histories of humanitarianism, decolonisation, and the Cold War, Blue Helmet Bureaucrats sheds new light on the mechanisms through which sovereignty was negotiated and re-negotiated after 1945.

After a decade of remarkable growth in the early 2000s, UN peacekeeping has entered a period of sharp contraction. This trend has been especially severe for civilian peacekeepers, who play vital though often neglected roles in UN operations: the number of civilian peacekeeper positions has shrunk by 37% since 2010. This article draws on 164 research interviews and the vast Business literature on downsizing to explore the effects of this contraction of the UN's remaining civilian peacekeepers and the missions that employ them. To conceptualize this impact, the article begins by outlining the contributions a range of civilians – international and national staff, UN Volunteers and contractors – make to UN peacekeeping. Mobilizing insights from Business scholars, it then argues that difficult downsizing processes, high employee commitment, and workforce stratification place UN missions at high risk of 'downsizing survivor syndrome': sustained organizational productivity losses due to decreased individual performance and team coherence. The article then confirms empirically that the nature of UN peacekeeping downsizing, job insecurity, and competition among personnel categories pose profound risks to civilian peacekeeper performance and therefore challenge effective mandate implementation. It also highlights that decreased inter-mission mobility due to the contraction of UN peacekeeping overall exacerbates this effect.

1. Introduction: The Pursuit of "Integration" and "Robustness" in Japan's Peacekeeping Policy -- 2.The Historical Background to Japan's Peacekeeping Policy from the Early Postwar Era to the Establishment of the PKO Act 1945–1992 -- 3. The Evolution of Japan's Peacekeeping Policy 1992–2012 -- 4. Recent Developments in Japan's International Peace Cooperation Under the Second Abe Government 2012–2020 -- 5. Cambodia: Japan's First UNPKO Contribution -- 6. East Timor: Adapting to "Integration" and Responding to "Robustness" -- 7. Haiti: The Development of "Seamless" Assistance from Disaster Relief to UNPKOs -- 8. South Sudan: The SDF and "Protection of Civilians" -- 9. Conclusion: Japan's Search for a New Direction in Peacekeeping.

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace. This book focuses on four types of mission composition-diversity among peacekeepers, within the mission leadership, between mission leaders and peacekeepers, and between peacekeepers and locals. It is the first book to explore mission composition and its consequences, unpacking a concept hitherto unexplored and empirically combining quantitative and qualitative methods. It makes an important contribution to the fields of peace research, security studies, and international relations at large.

This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies and the ways that people connect emotionally to myths about peacekeeping. The celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematised acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework – martial peace – the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. It critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges the academic, government and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.

Die Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr sind ein immer wieder kontrovers diskutiertes Instrument des deutschen Krisenmanagements. Wie in einem Brennglas lassen sich an den Diskussionen die »Reifungsprozesse« sowie die Bruchlinien deutscher, europäischer und transatlantischer Sicherheitspolitik ablesen. Zwar dürften Auslandseinsätze noch lange notwendig bleiben, sie sind jedoch einem erkennbaren Wandel unterworfen. Die Rahmenbedingungen für ihre Weiterentwicklung lassen sich entlang von drei Dimensionen nachzeichnen: dem Wandel des Kriegsgeschehens, den Veränderungen des internationalen politischen und rechtlichen Kontexts sowie schließlich dem Wandel des institutionellen Rahmens für diese Einsätze. Mit all diesen Herausforderungen muss die deutsche Politik umgehen und kann gleichzeitig nur begrenzt Einfluss auf den beschriebenen Wandel nehmen. Grundsätzlich werden Entscheidungen über Auslandseinsätze in einem Dreieck aus Problemdruck (Krisen und Konflikte), Verantwortung (völkerrechtliche Verpflichtungen, Bündnisse, politische Bindungen) sowie der politischen Situation und Stimmung in Deutschland selbst getroffen. Die Entwicklungen, welche die Handlungsspielräume in diesem Dreieck bestimmen, mögen schwer abzusehen sein. Doch die schlechteste aller Lösungen wäre, sich nur anlassbezogen und kurzfristig mit den beschriebenen Herausforderungen auseinanderzusetzen, zumal sie nicht allein Auslandseinsätze betreffen. Mit den Leitlinien zum Krisenmanagement von 2017 und dem Weißbuch 2016 hat die Bundesregierung einen Rahmen für das deutsche Engagement gesetzt, den es nun zu füllen gilt. Zudem sind die Erwartungen der Partner Deutschlands in EU, Nato und UNO größer geworden, was auch weitere militärische Beiträge erfordern wird.