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

Revista 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, Letícia Carvalho, Dawisson Belém Lopes   +2 more
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Harmonic Cost Sharing

Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the total cost of public good provision when contributors face heterogeneous quadratic cost functions. We demonstrate that while the total cost of equal provision depends only on the arithmetic mean of marginal cost slopes, the total cost of cost‐effective provision depends on their harmonic mean.
Daniel Heyen, Matthew McGinty
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 206-227, Summer 2026.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 24-40, Summer 2026.
Abstract The US‐Israeli war on Iran appears to demonstrate the perils of a transactional diplomacy that dismisses the rules‐based, liberal international order in pursuit of American dominance. Much of the growing literature assumes transactional diplomacy will be a temporary, Trump‐driven departure from traditional, values‐based statecraft. By contrast,
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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US‐Japan Alliance: Emmeshing Bilateralism Into Broader Multilateralism

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In the 21st Century, geopolitical confrontation between the Eurasian continental powers and the sea powers works to divide Asia. The US‐Japan alliance has transformed itself from Japanʼs asymmetrical security dependence of the Cold War period into a mutual and more integrated partnership today.
Yoichiro Sato
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Visioning ecologically diverse and harmonious futures of Korea in Good Anthropocene

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1379-1402, May 2026.
Abstract The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer between North and South Korea, holds profound historical, cultural and ecological significance, as well as exceptional potential for conservation and transformation. This study explores ecologically diverse and peaceful futures for the Korean Peninsula by envisioning the DMZ as a landscape for ...
HyeJin Kim, Garry Peterson, Hyeonjeong Kim, Hanvit Lee, Miyoung Yeo, Youngcheol Cho, Paula A. Harrison, Gwanwoo Jin, Bohun Kang, Junsoo Kim, Sanha Kim, Kyung Ah Koo, Brian W. Miller, Laura M. Pereira, SoEun Ahn, Lisa Yeonjung Gwon, Jaegyun Im, Seul‐gi Lee, Chunhwa Park, Jiyeon Park, Soojin Park, Yea‐Yl Yoon, Yukyong Jung Yun Choe, Mijung Im, Jae Chun Choe   +24 more
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Operações de Paz como Incentivo ao Profissionalismo das Forças Armadas

Meridiano 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

NUST 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
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USA Policy Towards United Nations: The Case of UN PKOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения
Introduction. This article examines United States policy towards United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UN PKOs) by analyzing the U.S. position towards peacekeeping operations in the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC) to trace the ...
Darya Pushkina, Rada Kalina
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UN Peacekeeping Operations in Africa in the Post-Cold War Era

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2008
UN peacekeeping operations are viewed as a relevant instrument of conflict resolution in the post-Cold War era. A significant part of them operates in Africa, the place with the largest “demand” for conflict resolution.
Jana Urbanovská
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