International Peacekeeping

International disputants often have reservations about inviting a peacekeeping body to help them contain or settle their conflict. Either or both sides might worry about certain international consequences of this course. Thus, one side might want to refrain from implying that an international issue really exists; both disputants might be concerned that a peacekeeping body could interfere with their freedom of action; and also that it could furnish critical reports about their behaviour. Then, too, there are certain adverse international possibilities which are special to potential host states. They might be conscious that having a peacekeeping body on their soil could give an impression of weakness or doubtful probity, and also of being less than fully sovereign. There are, additionally, certain domestic complications which might ensue for a host state. It could be concerned about the relations of the peacekeepers with its people, about the presence of such a group becoming a controversial political issue, and about the danger of a peacekeeping force ignoring the ground rules of peacekeeping and behaving in a manner which threatened the government's interests

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• Blue Berets or blindfolds? Peacekeeping and the hostage Effect

  Michael Wesley•International Peacekeeping•1995

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• The psychology of peacekeeping

  Harvey Langholtz, Harvey J Langholtz•Peace and Conflict Journal of…•1998

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• The Price of Peace

  Open Access•David Michael Green, Chad Kahl et al.•Policy Studies Journal•1998

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• Devious Objectives and the Disputants' View of International Mediation

  Open Access•Oliver Richmond•Journal of Peace Research•1998

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