UN peace operations in a multipolar order: Building peace through the rule of law and bottom-up approaches

Building a Republican Peace

an impressive international apparatus dedicated to peacebuilding—that is, the attempt to build stable, legitimate, and effective states after war—has emerged.1 The arst sustained push in this direction came with the development of second-generation peacekeeping operations that both monitored cease-ares and attempted to help states emerging from civil wars develop the requisites for a stable pea...

Law and Peace

Evaluating Multilateral Interventions in Civil Wars: A Comparison of UN and Non-UN Peace Operations

Legitimacy, impartiality, and technical expertise and are often thought to be key components of United Nations peace operations, ones that enable the UN to “get the job done” and that non-UN interventions lack. Based on an ecological model of peacebuilding, however, we expect there to be no inherent difference between the effectiveness of UN and non-UN operations. Using a comprehensive dataset ...

Command Arrangements for Peace Operations

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors want to acknowledge the efforts of several colleagues who supported this effort in a variety of ways. The materials from the Center for Advanced Command Concepts and Technologies (ACT) workshops are the products of serious work by dozens of professionals representing not only all of the military Services and the Joint Staff, but also the staff members at the National...

Peace through vaccine diplomacy.

CAN VACCINATIONS HELP TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS AND NURTURE DIPLOMACY? LATER THIS MONTH, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientifi c ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy. The oral polio vaccine is a substantive example of how vaccination...