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UN’s Use of Private Military and Security Companies in Peacekeeping Operations

Politikon, 2016
PMSCs are not only hired by states, the UN makes use of PMSCs as well. Due to the UN member states’ passivity there has not been a single peacekeeping operation without the involvement of PMSCs since 1990. But is there a legal basis?
Tina Linti
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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The role of civil-military cooperation in contemporary United Nations peacekeeping operations: a case study of UNIFIL

Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defense University
The paper explores the place and role of civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) in contemporary United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations. The author’s starting point is that civil-military cooperation is important for the success of a peacekeeping ...
Slobodan M. RADOJEVIC
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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg, Zorzeta Bakaki, Jessica Di Salvatore   +2 more
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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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Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
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UN: political missions are gradually replacing peacekeeping -- why that's dangerous [PDF]

, 2020
As the world’s leaders and their diplomats prepare to meet for the 75th session of the UN general assembly, much of the discussion will be virtual – and dominated by the response to COVID-19.
Dorussen, Han
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THE MAIN ASPECTS OF INFORMATIONAL PROVIDING FOR THE UN PEACEKEEPING

Міжнародні відносини: теоретико-практичні аспекти, 2020
The main goal of the article is to analyze the main problems of information support for the UN peacekeeping. Over the past decades, leading political leaders and experts  have  always  paid very  serious  attention  to information  problems.
Oleksandr Stepko
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War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We argue that war as a phenomenon deserves more focused attention in management. First, we highlight why war is an important and relevant area of inquiry for management scholars. We then integrate scattered conversations on war in management studies into a framework structured around three building blocks – (a) the nature of war from an ...
Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller
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The Trajectory of United Nations and Regional Organisations Peacekeeping in Africa: Theory and Practice

ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2014
An increase in intra-state armed conflicts in Africa since independence has elicited the responses of the international community to resolve or manage them through the mechanism of peacekeeping operations initiated by the United Nations or regional ...
Friday Aworawo
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