United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

✍ Scribed by Cedric de Coning, Mateja Peter

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access book explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four transformational trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state actors for greater emphasis on human security. It identifies emerging conflict and peace trends (robustness of responses, rise of non-state threats, cross-state conflicts) and puts them in the context of tectonic shifts in the global order (rise of emerging powers, North–South rebalancing, emergence of regional organisations as providers of peace). The volume stimulates a discussion between practitioners and academics from the global North and South, and offers an analysis of how the international community collectively makes sense of the changing global order and its implications for UN peace operations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
UN Peace Operations: Adapting to a New Global Order? (Mateja Peter)....Pages 1-22
Front Matter ....Pages 23-23
Peacekeeping: Resilience of an Idea (Mateja Peter)....Pages 25-44
UN Peacekeeping in a Multipolar World Order: Norms, Role Expectations, and Leadership (Adriana Erthal Abdenur)....Pages 45-65
Politics in the Driving Seat: Good Offices, UN Peace Operations, and Modern Conflict (Adam Day)....Pages 67-89
People-Centred Approaches to Peace: At Cross Roads Between Geopolitics, Norms, and Practice (Youssef Mahmoud)....Pages 91-109
Front Matter ....Pages 111-111
What Are the Limits to the Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping? (Mats Berdal)....Pages 113-132
Protection of Civilians in the United Nations: A Peacekeeping Illusion? (Hilde Frafjord Johnson)....Pages 133-152
UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism (John Karlsrud)....Pages 153-167
Peace Operations and Organised Crime: Still Foggy? (Arthur Boutellis, Stephanie Tiélès)....Pages 169-190
UN Policing: The Security–Trust Challenge (Kari M. Osland)....Pages 191-209
Front Matter ....Pages 211-211
Africa and UN Peace Operations: Implications for the Future Role of Regional Organisations (Cedric de Coning)....Pages 213-229
The European Union and UN Peace Operations: What Global–Regional Peace and Security Partnership? (Thierry Tardy)....Pages 231-251
China Rising and Its Changing Policy on UN Peacekeeping (Yin He)....Pages 253-276
Religion, Governance, and the ‘Peace–Humanitarian–Development Nexus’ in South Sudan (Jonathan C. Agensky)....Pages 277-295
UN Peace Operations and Changes in the Global Order: Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience (Cedric de Coning)....Pages 297-317
Back Matter ....Pages 319-334

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Peace Studies; International Organization; International Security Studies; Conflict Studies; Globalization; Regionalism