| Description |
1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Cover; The Economics of UN Peacekeeping; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; List of acronyms; Introduction; 1. Theoretical basis of UN peacekeeping; Peacekeeping definitions: a comparison; UN peacekeeping, an impure international public good; The question of public choices in peacekeeping production: the impossible aggregation of national preferences; Nations' participation in peacekeeping is based on national interests and on their utility for the operation; The indivisible nature of peacekeeping leads to free-rider problems |
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The prisoner's dilemma situation in contributions to UN peacekeepingCollective production of UN peacekeeping is subject to disproportionate burden sharing; Production of peacekeeping is not optimal; Production of peace raises issues of internalization of externalities; 2. The history of UN peacekeeping operations; Economic theories and peacekeeping; The creation of the UN and its place in the Cold War; UN peacekeeping 'visible' activities 1945-92: more failures than successes; Economic considerations of peacekeeping |
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3. From traditional to multidimensional operations, or the development of UN peacekeepingFirst UN peacekeeping missions, 1956-88, or so-called 'first-generation' operations; Re-birth of peacekeeping after the Cold War and evolution to multidimensional operations; A significant increase of UN peacekeeping operations and of military personnel; 4. Financing UN peacekeeping: an inequitable peacekeeping assessment scale; Fundamental characteristics of the scale of assessment for peacekeeping; Significant shortcomings in the scale of assessment for peacekeeping |
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Problems of equity in the scale and consequencesInequity leads to an increase in the assessments of rich countries: possible decline in contributions; 5. UN peacekeeping expenditure and total costs; Peacekeeping expenditure fluctuates significantly, 1950-2010; Peacekeeping approved resources versus regular budget appropriations: a comparison indicating the UN's heavy responsibility in international security; Share of peacekeeping expenditure in world military expenditure: countries' low commitment to peacekeeping |
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Total UN published peacekeeping expenditure does not reflect total costs of UN peacekeeping activitiesPeacekeeping expenditure should be non-discretionary; UN debt in peacekeeping and consequences; 6. A UN permanent army versus a patchwork of national armies; UN peacekeeping, an ad hoc arrangement of national armies; Contributing nations benefit from significant economic advantages; Production of peacekeeping by a patchwork of national armies is costly, in the short term; The strategic deployment stocks (SDS), a system that seeks to accelerate deployments |
| Summary |
Peacekeeping is a security concept that is very representative of the current interventionism, multilateralism, human rights, and humanitarian ideas. UN peacekeeping plays an important role in international security and includes various activities that go beyond the original roles assigned to UN armed forces (e.g. humanitarian aid, election supervision, disarmament, mine clearance, civilian protection, and peacebuilding). The problem is to define the economic efficiency of these operations and to develop some recommendations in the context of an economic globalization process |
| Notes |
Production of UN peacekeeping through a permanent army |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces.
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| SUBJECT |
United Nations fast |
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Peacekeeping forces -- Economic aspects
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Peace-building -- Economic aspects
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LAW -- International.
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Peace-building -- Economic aspects
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Peacekeeping forces
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203814413 |
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020381441X |
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