France
The unlikely return to UN peacekeeping
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12536809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thierry Tardy (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 610-629 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Peacekeeping (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-3312 • E-ISSN: 1743-906X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13533312.2016.1235091 |
| OpenAlex | W2521205705 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 9 |
French policy towards UN peacekeeping reflects the ambivalence of what France wants to achieve in the field of conflict management and through which institutional frameworks it prefers to work. On the one hand, France is greatly involved in the design and decision-making process of contemporary UN-led peacekeeping operations. On the other hand, after having been present in the field during the early 1990s, France underwent a major policy shift that led it to distance itself from UN operations. This chapter offers a narrative of French policy and perceptions vis-à-vis the virtues and limits of UN peacekeeping operations in the twenty-first century. It examines the French level of contributions, decision-making process, motivations and lessons learnt from past and current operations. It also analyses the dichotomy between the political role that France plays at the Security Council and its absence from UN-led operations. It seeks to determine how coherent this dichotomy is, its rationale, and how likely – and under what conditions – it will change in the near future, in particular through a hypothetical French return to UN-led peacekeeping operations
Ambivalence · Narrative · Peacekeeping · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Power in Peacekeeping
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations
France’s militarized interstate disputes
The European Union’s Role in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
The Security Council Diplomacy and the Strengthened Unifil, 2006
French military operations in Africa
France’s military operations in Africa
France’s interventions in Mali and the Sahel
Recent Articles on French History
Failed International Interventions and the Making of New Social Contracts in Mali
The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping
International involvement in (re-)building police forces
| Citations per year | 1.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |