How Africa and China may shape UN peacekeeping beyond the liberal international order

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ID3696433
AutoresKatharina P Coleman (0000-0003-4155-5128), Brian L Job (0000-0002-7492-595X)
Año2021
Volumen97
Número5
Páginas1451-1468
Fecha de publicación2021-09-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iiab113
OpenAlexW3196420941
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas9

UN peacekeeping became a flagship activity of the liberal international order (LIO) in the post-Cold War era, characterized by globalization, liberal norms and western leadership. Western states' diminished support for LIO UN peacekeeping has left it increasingly open to challenge, but significant changes are only likely if a strong group of states coalesces around an alternative model of UN peacekeeping. This article highlights African actors and China as well positioned to play pivotal roles in such a coalition. African states, who host the preponderance of UN missions and furnish almost half of the UN's uniformed peacekeepers, support globalized UN peacekeeping, show relatively weak support for the most liberal peacebuilding principles and assert the need for African-led solutions to continental crises. China's influence reflects its P5 status, financial and personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping and engagement with regional actors, notably in Africa. Aspiring to global leadership and a 'new world order', China endorses globalized UN peacekeeping but proposes a non-liberal (and non-western led) notion of 'developmental peace' to guide it. The complementarities between African and Chinese priorities raise the possibility of a profound challenge to LIO peacekeeping. Rather than heralding deglobalization, however, this challenge illustrates that post-LIO international institutions may instead be characterized by deliberalization and dewesternization

China · Development economics · Economics · Order (exchange) · Peacebuilding · Peacekeeping · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration