African peacekeeping
In: International affairs, Band 98, Heft 5, S. 1828-1829
ISSN: 1468-2346
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In: International affairs, Band 98, Heft 5, S. 1828-1829
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: Global society: journal of interdisciplinary international relations, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 318-334
ISSN: 1469-798X
In: International peacekeeping, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 703-731
ISSN: 1743-906X
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.
World Affairs Online
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 101-120
ISSN: 1942-6720
In: Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 339-358
ISSN: 1750-2985
In: Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 339-358
ISSN: 1750-2977
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of African military history, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 101-120
ISSN: 2468-0966
World Affairs Online
In: European journal of international relations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 163-186
ISSN: 1354-0661
World Affairs Online
In: European journal of international relations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 163-186
ISSN: 1460-3713
Venue -- the institutional setting in which actors interact -- is a critical but neglected factor in international norm creation. This article brings together constructivist and rationalist insights to explain both why and how venue affects norm creation and how norm leaders choose among different venues. First, it highlights the importance of negotiation alongside persuasion in norm emergence -- the first stage of Finnemore and Sikkink's (1998) norm life cycle -- thus opening space for a full consideration of venues within the constructivist paradigm. Second, it details how venue membership, mandate, output status, rules of procedure/operating procedures and legitimacy affect both the content and the level of international support of an emerging norm. Third, it offers a conceptual framework for understanding how norm leaders choose venues. Finally, it illustrates the impact of venue on norm creation and the dynamics of strategic venue choice by examining venue changes during the movement to ban anti-personnel landmines and the effort to promote international consensus on humanitarian intervention. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]
In: Providing Peacekeepers, S. 47-68
In: European journal of international relations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 163-186
ISSN: 1460-3713
Venue — the institutional setting in which actors interact — is a critical but neglected factor in international norm creation. This article brings together constructivist and rationalist insights to explain both why and how venue affects norm creation and how norm leaders choose among different venues. First, it highlights the importance of negotiation alongside persuasion in norm emergence — the first stage of Finnemore and Sikkink's (1998) norm life cycle — thus opening space for a full consideration of venues within the constructivist paradigm. Second, it details how venue membership, mandate, output status, rules of procedure/operating procedures and legitimacy affect both the content and the level of international support of an emerging norm. Third, it offers a conceptual framework for understanding how norm leaders choose venues. Finally, it illustrates the impact of venue on norm creation and the dynamics of strategic venue choice by examining venue changes during the movement to ban anti-personnel landmines and the effort to promote international consensus on humanitarian intervention.
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 517-545
ISSN: 1469-7777
ABSTRACTThree critical trends in the evolving practice of regional peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa have undermined the usefulness of the common conceptual dichotomy between regional peacekeeping and UN/global peacekeeping. First, sub-Saharan African states have distanced themselves from long-term autonomous regional peacekeeping, and currently favour explicitly interim missions that are a prelude rather than an alternative to UN peacekeeping. Second, the analytically clear line between regional peacekeeping and the separate sub-Saharan African tradition of solidarity deployments (i.e. military support of embattled governments) has in practice become blurred, and the regional vs global peacekeeping dichotomy not only fails to acknowledge this trend but helps to obscure it. Finally, sub-Saharan African states are increasingly addressing regional conflicts by participating in UN operations deployed in the region. UN peacekeeping has thus emerged as a preferred form of regional peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa.
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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Working paper
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 224-225
ISSN: 2052-465X
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 224-225
ISSN: 0020-7020