The New World of UN Peace Operations

Benner, Thorsten; Mergenthaler, Stephan; Rotmann, Philipp

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“…Knowledge deficits can be compensated through employment of national staffers who engage in knowledge linkage. There are, however, important moderators, including those mentioned earlier (recruitment practices, staff relations), but also whether organizations employ alternative knowledge sources and learning tools (Benner, Mergenthaler, & Rotmann, 2011) or the ability of country operations to act autonomously upon local information in the first place (Campbell, 2018).…”

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Bridging the citizen gap: Bureaucratic representation and knowledge linkage in (international) public administration

Eckhard

2020

Governance

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Bridging the citizen gap: Bureaucratic representation and knowledge linkage in (international) public administration

Eckhard

2020

Governance

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“…Another example of evolution is the emergence of multidimensional peace operations, sustained by larger specialized bureaucracies within mandating international organizations that support a broader range of peacekeeping activities. At the UN, for instance, the parts of the secretariat focused on peace operations gradually became more professionalized and from the 1990s were expanded to include divisions explicitly dealing with new activities, such as policing, rule of law and security institutions as well as mechanisms to create new, "integrated" missions in order to coordinate different agencies within the wider UN system (Benner et al, 2011; see also Karlsrud, 2015;Weinlich, 2014). In turn, bureaucrats within the UN, the African Union, the European Union, and NATO have become active participants in debates about the evolving constitutive rules of peace operations; as well as (sometimes self-interested) advocates for their persistence.…”

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Peace operations are what states make of them: Why future evolution is more likely than extinction

Coleman

Williams

2021

Contemporary Security Policy

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Peace operations are a highly resilient international institution for managing armed conflict. Their resilience derives from what constructivists in International Relations theory call collective intentionality and the malleable constitutive rules that define and structure such missions. Despite a range of current constraints, challenges, and crises, peace operations are unlikely to become extinct unless a critical mass of states consistently withdraw material support for them and explicitly denigrate the concept of peace operations itself. We see little evidence that both these things are likely to occur. However, the constitutive rules guiding peace operations are likely to continue to evolve due to ideational and material changes. While the proliferation of actors and mission types makes precise predictions impossible, we expect an evolution both in how various actors define their own peace operations and how these actors relate to each other. KEYWORDS Peacekeeping; peace operations; United Nations; constructivism Peace operations involve the expeditionary use of military personnel to: help prevent armed conflict by supporting a peace process; observe or assist in the implementation of ceasefires or peace agreements; and/or enforce ceasefires, peace agreements or the will of the United Nations (UN) Security Council in order to build stable peace (Williams & Bellamy, 2021, p. 1). Since the late 1940s, peace operations have been authorized by various international organizations-most frequently the UN-and states, usually in response to war or the threat of war. They have been deployed right across the conflict cycle, including in the midst of active armed conflicts, after ceasefires, following peace agreements, and, rarely, before the outbreak of war. Peacekeepers have been variously mandated to prevent war, observe ceasefires and demilitarized zones, assist in implementing peace agreements, protect civilians, as well as stabilize and even administer war-torn territories. Occasionally, they

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“…While our knowledge about IPA management change has been advanced though various case studies (see e.g., Davies ; Benner et al ; Dykmann et al ; Eckhard ; Junk et al ), scholars seem not to have followed the trend toward time‐sensitive comparison to the same degree as studies of policy or governance change (see e.g., Zürn et al ; Hooghe et al ; Lundgren et al ). In order identify previously neglected dimensions and to provide hints about how to systematically compare change across cases, the following sections summarize the most important comparative studies and distinguish between general accounts of change and those addressing individual dimensions.…”

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Learning from the Commission case: The comparative study of management change in international public administrations

Ege

2019

Public Administration

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Despite the growing importance attributed to organizational performance in global governance, management change in international public administrations (IPAs) is still poorly understood. In particular, the lack of comparative analyses that cover a broader range of management areas limits our descriptive knowledge about the direction and intensity of management change in IPAs. Without such knowledge, however, refining existing theories about the causes and consequences of change is difficult. Based on the reforms of the European Commission, the article reviews available studies about managerial change in IPAs to identify pertinent topics, available knowledge and gaps in the literature. Aiming to narrow these gaps, empirical data on three IPAs are presented to show in which areas and to what degree the management changed over time in these cases and to illustrate how multi‐dimensional managerial change can be studied comparatively in future research more generally.

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The New World of UN Peace Operations

Cited by 91 publications

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Bridging the citizen gap: Bureaucratic representation and knowledge linkage in (international) public administration

Bridging the citizen gap: Bureaucratic representation and knowledge linkage in (international) public administration

Peace operations are what states make of them: Why future evolution is more likely than extinction

Learning from the Commission case: The comparative study of management change in international public administrations

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