{"title":"The Twilight of Liberal Peacebuilding? <b>Peacebuilding in the United Nations: Coming into Life</b> , by Fernando Cavalcante, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 334 pp., £79.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9783030038632 <b>A Requiem for Peacebuilding?</b> edited by Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer and Barbara Segaert, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 258 pp., £109.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9783030564766","authors":"Herman T. Salton","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2278603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2278603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"149 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2003–2023: A Twenty-Year Reflection of the Iraqi Invasion, Occupation and Resulting Interventions","authors":"Irene Costantini, Dylan O’Driscoll","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2290908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2290908","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT 2023 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. This Special Issue collects contributions that reflect on the one hand, upon changing assumptions, worldviews, and the policy paradigms informing the international intervention in Iraq; and, on the other hand, on its direct and indirect effects on the political, economic, and social developments in the country. Focusing on different themes, actors, and geographical locations, the articles collectively reaffirm the centrality of the 2003 intervention logic, which 20 years after, still haunts Iraq and whose legacy still proves prolific and conducive to understanding, interpreting, and explaining the reality on the ground as well as the evolution of international interventionism.","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"71 1","pages":"549 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139315935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"African Peacekeeping <b>African Peacekeeping</b> , by Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 242 pp., ISBN: 978 1 108 49937 8","authors":"Bruno Charbonneau","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2270897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2270897","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 See Charbonneau, “The Imperial Legacy of International Peacebuilding,” 607–630; Charbonneau and Chafer, “Peace Operations and Francophone Spaces,” 274–286.2 Reno, Warfare in Independent Africa.3 See Karbo, “Conclusion,” 455–465; Tieku, “The African Union: Successes and Failures”.","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The Hand that Holds the Pen’: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Peacekeeping, and American Influence Over the United Nations Secretariat in the Early 1990s","authors":"Herman T. Salton","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2269834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2269834","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article reviews the creative ways in which the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, used the UN Secretariat to achieve his goals, as well as the obstacles he faced in doing so. Using new sources – including confidential UN memos, elite interviews, and private archives – the paper suggests that, in the context of peacekeeping, the former Secretary-General engaged in parallel processes of ‘politicization’ and ‘depoliticization’: on the one hand he minimised, avoided and concealed the substantive dimensions of certain decisions, units and issues with the aim of marginalising those departments and officials that he saw as too close to the United States, while on the other he empowered those bureaucratic units which he felt he could more easily control. Specifically, by bestowing upon the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) a sweeping mandate while painting the role of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) as merely ‘operational’, Boutros-Ghali used ‘technicization’ as a means to strengthen the Secretary-General's office.KEYWORDS: Boutros Boutros-Ghali; peacekeepingpeacebuildingUnited Nations SecretariatSecretary-Generalbureaucracypoliticisation and depoliticisationtechnicisation Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Albrow, Bureaucracy, 57.2 Ibid.3 Myint-U and Scott, The UN Secretariat, 84.4 Hill, The Papers of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 2 (emphasis added).5 Kille, From Manager to Visionary.6 Hill, The Papers of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 3 (emphasis added).7 Boutros-Ghali, Mes Années à la Maison de Verre.8 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, “Review of the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functions of the United Nations and Restructuring of the Secretariat.”9 Boutros-Ghali, En Attendant la Prochaine Lune.10 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, “Restructuring of the Secretariat”, in Hill, vol. 1, 30–33.11 Ibid., 31.12 Ameri, Politics of Staffing the United Nations Secretariat, 50.13 Chesterman, Secretary or General?.14 Boutros-Ghali, Mes Années à la Maison de Verre, 18.15 Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace.16 Louis and Maertens, Why International Organizations Hate Politics, 5; Barnett and Finnemore, Rules for the World, 21.17 Guterres, A New Agenda for Peace, also available at https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-new-agenda-for-peace-en.pdf (accessed August 18, 2023).18 Levi, “On Microhistory.”19 Boutros-Ghali, Mes Années à la Maison de Verre, chap. 1.20 Boutros-Ghali, “Memorandum,” 1 (MIG-PA).21 Albrow, Bureaucracy, chap. 1.22 Burgess, The United Nations Under Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1992–1997.23 Boutros-Ghali, “Memorandum,” 2.24 Ibid. (emphasis added).25 Steffek, International Organization as Technocratic Utopia.26 Nicholas, The United Nations as a Political Institution, 169.27 Luard, The United Nations, 95.28 Miller, “What Does ‘Political’ Mean?,” 64.29 Loui","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135618820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict: The Case of Israel and Palestine <b>The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict: The Case of Israel and Palestine</b> , by Joana Ricarte, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 256 pp., £49.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9783031165665","authors":"Özgenur Aktan","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2270411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2270411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Illusion of Empowerment? A Twenty-Year Review of United Nations Reports on Localization in Iraq","authors":"Jacqueline Parry, Birte Vogel","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2265293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2265293","url":null,"abstract":"Localization has emerged as a dominant reform paradigm guiding humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts on a global scale. It signals a commitment to shift power to local actors by recognizing, valuing, and strengthening their role in humanitarian or peacebuilding interventions. Despite this commitment, a noticeable reorientation of power to local actors has not occurred. This article contributes to the critical scholarship on localization by analysing 22 United Nations reports to examine their understanding of local actors and their envisaged contributions to missions in Iraq since 2003. The study engages with the UN's perspectives on localization across its key mission areas: development, stabilization, and humanitarianism. The findings show a lack of consistency in the Unites Nations’ perception of local actors and their contributions, with different sub-sectors presenting disparate views. The reports predominantly emphasize the instrumental use of local actors to achieve pre-defined mission objectives. Consequently, this article shows that the case of Iraq exposes a disconnect between the progressive and normative scholarly framing of localization as a political project aimed at restructuring power dynamics, and its on-ground implementation, which often simplifies localization as mere involvement of local actors.","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136097959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allard Duursma, Corinne Bara, Nina Wilén, Sara Hellmüller, John Karlsrud, Kseniya Oksamytna, Janek Bruker, Susanna Campbell, Salvator Cusimano, Marco Donati, Han Dorussen, Dirk Druet, Valentin Geier, Marine Epiney, Valentin Geier, Linnéa Gelot, Dennis Gyllensporre, Annick Hiensch, Lisa Hultman, Charles T. Hunt, Rajkumar Cheney Krishnan, Patryk I. Labuda, Sascha Langenbach, Annika Hilding Norberg, Alexandra Novosseloff, Daniel Oriesek, Emily Paddon Rhoads, Francesco Re, Jenna Russo, Melanie Sauter, Hannah Smidt, Ueli Staeger, Andreas Wenger
{"title":"UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects","authors":"Allard Duursma, Corinne Bara, Nina Wilén, Sara Hellmüller, John Karlsrud, Kseniya Oksamytna, Janek Bruker, Susanna Campbell, Salvator Cusimano, Marco Donati, Han Dorussen, Dirk Druet, Valentin Geier, Marine Epiney, Valentin Geier, Linnéa Gelot, Dennis Gyllensporre, Annick Hiensch, Lisa Hultman, Charles T. Hunt, Rajkumar Cheney Krishnan, Patryk I. Labuda, Sascha Langenbach, Annika Hilding Norberg, Alexandra Novosseloff, Daniel Oriesek, Emily Paddon Rhoads, Francesco Re, Jenna Russo, Melanie Sauter, Hannah Smidt, Ueli Staeger, Andreas Wenger","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2263178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2263178","url":null,"abstract":"This year marks the 75th anniversary of what the UN itself understands to be its first peacekeeping operation. It is therefore an appropriate time to reflect on the track record of UN peacekeeping in its efforts to try to maintain and realize peace and security. Moreover, this milestone invites us to ponder what lies ahead in the realm of peacekeeping. For this reason, this forum article brings together both academics and UN officials to assess the achievements and challenges of UN peacekeeping over the past 75 years. Through a dialogue among peacekeeping scholars and practitioners, we hope to identify current trends and developments in UN peacekeeping, as well as explore priorities for the future to improve the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations in terms of achieving their mandate objectives, such as maintaining peace, protecting civilians, promoting human rights, and facilitating reconciliation. This forum article is structured into six thematic sections, each shedding light on various aspects of UN peacekeeping: (1) foundational principles of UN peacekeeping - namely, consent, impartiality, and the (non-)use of force; (2) protection of civilians; (3) the primacy of politics; (4) early warning; (5) cooperation with regional organizations; and (6) the changing geopolitical landscape in which UN peacekeeping operates.","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136098442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Security and Interorganizational Networks in Peace Operations <b>Security and Interorganizational Networks in Peace Operations</b> , by Isil Akbulut-Gok, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 158 pp., £89.99 (hardback), ISBN 9783031143557","authors":"Jens Herpolsheimer","doi":"10.1080/13533312.2023.2262375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2023.2262375","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 E.g. Aris et al., Inter-Organisational Relations in International Security; Biermann, and Koops, The Palgrave Handbook.2 Although probably common among similar studies, the operationalization of these concepts appears rather crude. For example, successful ‘violence abatement’ refers to the reduction in the number of civil casualties, and ‘conflict settlement’ is considered successful as soon as a peace agreement has been signed, regardless if it is subsequently observed or not.Additional informationFundingDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (266371360 – SFB 1199).","PeriodicalId":47231,"journal":{"name":"International Peacekeeping","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135193124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}