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When do UN peacekeeping operations implement their mandates?

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Blair, Robert, Di Salvatore, Jessica and Smidt, Hannah M. (2022) When do UN peacekeeping operations implement their mandates? American Journal of Political Science, 66 (3). pp. 664-680. doi:10.1111/ajps.12650 ISSN 0092-5853.

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Abstract

Under what conditions do UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) implement the tasks in their mandates? Contemporary PKOs are expected to fulfill increasingly fragmented mandates in active conflict zones. Drawing on principal-agent and constructivist accounts of the performance of international organizations, we argue that these two trends --increasingly fragmented mandates, increasingly implemented amidst violence-- hinder PKOs from pursuing mandated tasks, undermining their legitimacy in the eyes of the Security Council, troop-contributing countries, and host-governments. Combining new datasets on PKOs activities and mandates in Africa (1998-2016) and using instrumental variables and two-way fixed effects models, we find that that mandate fragmentation is negatively correlated with mandate implementation, especially for peacebuilding tasks. Ongoing violence is also negatively correlated with the implementation of peacebuilding, but not with security-related tasks. We show that this is likely due to the offsetting effects of violence perpetrated by governments and rebels, as PKOs are better equipped to respond to the latter.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Journal or Publication Title: American Journal of Political Science
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0092-5853
Official Date: July 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
July 2022Published
28 July 2021Available
30 April 2021Accepted
Volume: 66
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 664-680
DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12650
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Blair, R.A., Di Salvatore, J. and Smidt, H.M. (2021), When Do UN Peacekeeping Operations Implement Their Mandates?. American Journal of Political Science., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12650. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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Date of first compliant deposit: 17 May 2021
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