Providing Peacekeepers - The Politics, Challenges, and Future of United Nations Peacekeeping Contributions (Hardcover)

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the rising demand for peacekeepers saw the United Nations (UN) operate at a historically unprecedented tempo, with increases in the number and size of missions as well as in the scope and complexity of their mandates. The need to deploy over 120,000 UN peacekeepers and the demands placed upon them in the field have threatened to outstrip the willingness and to some extent capacity of the UN's Member States. This situation raised the questions of why states contribute forces to UN missions and, conversely, what factors inhibit them from doing more? Providing Peacekeepers answers these questions. After summarizing the challenges confronting the UN in its force generation efforts, the book develops a new framework for analyzing UN peacekeeping contributions in light of the evidence presented in sixteen case study chapters which examine the experiences of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Nepal, Uruguay, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Japan. The book concludes by offering recommendations for how the UN might develop new strategies for force generation so as to meet the foreseeable challenges of twenty-first century peacekeeping and improve the quantity and quality of its uniformed peacekeepers.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	May 2013
Editors:	Alex J. Bellamy • Paul D Williams
Dimensions:	240 x 163 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-967282-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Law > International law > Settlement of international disputes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > International institutions > United Nations & UN agencies
LSN:	0-19-967282-2
Barcode:	9780199672820

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