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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12650
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 | ||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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