Examining UN PKO contributions at multiple levels

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ID10071604
AuthorsMin Ye (0000-0002-9389-356X, Political Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA, corresponding author), Quan Li (0000-0003-4734-7709, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China)
Year2022
Volume67
Issue2-3
Pages349-374
Publication date2022-07-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00220027221114863
OpenAlexW4285021677
LanguageEN
References cited31

Most empirical studies on states’ personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) use a state’s annual contributions as the unit of analysis. A critical problem of the state-level analysis is that it ignores the fact that states have to decide how to distribute these peacekeepers among more than a dozen peacekeeping missions. Ignoring the mission-level decision misses a significant part of states’ UN PKO contributions and could bias our empirical analysis. We propose a two-level model that sees a state’s UN PKO contributions as the interactions between the state-level and mission-level factors. This model is employed to revisit the heatedly debated “reimbursement hypothesis”. Our analysis of the empirical data between 1990 and 2018 shows a mixed relationship between states’ economic development and their UN PKO contributions. We also find that middle-income rather than low-income countries are the most critical providers of UN PKOs since the end of the cold war

Dozen · Economics · Empirical research · Peacekeeping · Political science · Positive economics · Public economics · State (computer science · Statistics · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Mathematics · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration

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