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Conceptualization of UN Peacekeeping as an International Regime

open access: yesObrana a Strategie, 2012
It is widely recognized that UN peacekeeping operations are an undertheorized topic. In this respect, scholars call to devote more attention to the incorporation of the study of UN peacekeeping operations into the framework of international relations ...
Jana Urbanovská
doaj  

O enquadramento das Missões de Paz (PKO) nas teorias da guerra e de polícia

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2002
A clareza original do que sejam as operações de manutenção, ou Missões de Paz - PKO - já não existe, se é que algum dia ela de fato existiu. No decorrer desse artigo Busca-se enquadrar as PKO nas teorias de guerra e de polícia, com base no entendimento ...
Domício Proença Júnior
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Risky Behaviors Among Fishers in a Lower Middle Income Country: A Qualitative Study of Fishers in Elmina, Ghana

open access: yesPublic Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
Fishers in Elmina, Ghana, engage in alcohol use, smoking, and unsafe sexual practices shaped by mobility, economic pressures, and risk perceptions. Using risk compensation theory, this study shows how occupational risk normalizes health risk‐taking, highlighting the need for integrated behavioral and structural interventions in fishing communities ...
Sylvester Kyei‐Gyamfi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thailand's Participation in UN Peacekeeping Missions

open access: yes, 2017
This paper traces experiences of the Royal Thai Armed Forces in UN peacekeeping missions. A relatively small troop contributor at first, Thailand later took a high-profile role in the UN operations in East Timor during 1999-2005, and has continued since ...
Brendan M. Howe
core   +1 more source

Human Rights and Gender Aspects in United Nations Peacekeeping Operation Mandates: How did they sneak in?

open access: yesPaix et Sécurité Internationales, 2020
Human Rights and Gender issues within the framework of Women, Peace and Security Agenda have been introduced into the UN peacekeeping operations in different ways.
Maria Avello Martinez
doaj   +1 more source

Harmonic Cost Sharing

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

open access: yesMiddle 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
wiley   +1 more source

Albanian peacekeepers: exploring the inward-looking utility of international peacekeeping

open access: yes, 2016
This article provides the first comprehensive account of Albania's contribution to international peacekeeping and explores its inward-looking rationales for providing peacekeepers.
Gëzim Visoka   +3 more
core   +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
doaj   +1 more source

UN Peacekeeping Operations and Successful Military Diplomacy: A Case Study of Pakistan

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2020
Few years following its creation, the United Nations (UN) with the blessing of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) decided to establish the UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO), as a multilateral mechanism geared at fulfilling the Chapter VII
Bakare Najimdeen
doaj   +1 more source

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