Results 71 to 80 of about 33,535 (235)

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

European 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 Growing Role of China in UN Peacekeeping Operations

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2012
This article discusses the growing role of China in UN peacekeeping operations since 1989. First, the reasons for the non-engagement of China after its admission to the UN and its Security Council in 1971 are described to stress the difference of the ...
Jitka Evanová
doaj  

Balancing Incentives Among Actors: A Carrots and Sticks Approach to Reputation in UN Peacekeeping Missions

AJIL Unbound, 2019
As Kristina Daugirdas points out in her article on the role of reputation in international organizations (IOs), peacekeeping operations include a multitude of actors with varying interests.
Sabrina M. Karim
doaj   +1 more source

Normative and Legal Challenges to un Peacekeeping Operations

Journal of International Peacekeeping, 2015
The application of law and norms in military operations is complex. This article provides an overview of legal and normative aspects in un peace operations. It will focus on key challenges to un peace operations. First, it will review un peacekeeping from the perspective of international law.
Brendan Howe, Boris Kondoch, Otto Spijkers   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

Global 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

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN POLICY APPROACHES: CHINEESE PARTICIPATION IN THE UN PEACEKEEPING OPERAIONS (1981–2012)

Сравнительная политика, 2015
Chinese approach towards peacekeeping evolved significantly through out the last few decades. Previous total denial in the 1980s transformed into acceptance of peacekeeping as valuable instrument of global governance.
I. A. Zarodov
doaj   +1 more source

South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global 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

China’s peacekeeping activities within the UN: Features, challenges, and prospects

Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика
In recent years, China has been vigorously strengthening its international authority, consistently building its image as a responsible great power. One of the vivid manifestations of these efforts has been China’s active involvement in peacekeeping ...
Qian Li
doaj   +1 more source

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

Global 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

Twenty Years Wandering (But Not in the Desert): Brazil’s 1967-1989 absence from UN peacekeeping

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2015
Since the early 1990s, Brazilian officials have often underlined the country’s role as a traditional contributor of troops to peacekeeping operations, beginning with participation in UNEF I, in 1957. However, for the two decades from 1967 to 1989, Brazil
Eduardo Uziel, João Vargas
doaj   +3 more sources