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Indonesian Female Peacekeepers in The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission

open access: yesJurnal Pertahanan: Media Informasi tentang Kajian dan Strategi Pertahanan yang Mengedepankan Identity, Nasionalism & Integrity, 2017
As peacekeeping has evolved to encompass a broader humanitarian approach, women personels have become increasingly part of the peacekeeping family. The UN has called for more deployment of female peacekeepers to enhance the overall “holistic” approach to
Leonard F. Hutabarat
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of European Union (EU) Metagovernance in Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 1, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise and Decline of Brazil as a Peacekeeper [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional
The article investigates the trajectory and transformations of Brazil’s involvement in UN peacekeeping operations, seeking to explain the recent hesitation to assume a leadership role in contrast to previous periods, particularly during the two initial ...
Geraldine Rosas Duarte   +2 more
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue S1, Page S14-S22, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
wiley   +1 more source

South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue S1, Page S45-S54, February 2026.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

Status Politics: The Changing Meanings and Practices of South Korea's Middle Power Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue S1, Page S84-S93, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Why do some states engage in so‐called middle power diplomacy? Conventional middle power scholarship does not adequately explain this question because the logical premise underlying its definition of “middle powers” is either inconsequential or circular.
Yong Wook Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Operações de Paz como Incentivo ao Profissionalismo das Forças Armadas

open access: yesMeridiano 47, 2017
This paperwork aims to analyse some reasons why Uruguay is maintaining a policy of sending its military forces to peacekeeping operations and points some implications to Armed Forces.
Tiago Pedro Vales
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Power in Peacekeeping by Lise Morjé Howard

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2020
Howard is an experienced scholar in the fields of international relations, civil wars, peacekeeping and conflict resolution. She has authored several works on peacekeeping such as Learning to Keep the Peace?
Natasha Khan
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges in International Peace Operations: Strengthening Partnership Peacekeeping

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability
International peace operations have undergone significant transformation since their inception, evolving from basic ceasefire monitoring to addressing multifaceted global challenges.
Raja Aftab Khan
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Peacekeepers against Criminal Violence—Unintended Effects of Peacekeeping Operations? [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, 2019
AbstractResearch shows that peacekeepers reduce conflict intensity; however, effects of deployment on nonpolitical violence are unknown. This article focuses on criminal violence and proposes a twofold mechanism to explain why peacekeeping missions, even when effectively reducing conflict, can inadvertently increase criminal violence.
openaire   +2 more sources

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