The Relationship Between the UN Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council in the Field of Peacekeeping

MILINDA: A new dataset on United Nations-led and non-united Nations-led peace operations

“…While the UNSC has resorted to a pragmatic posture toward ROs and—through devising hybrid missions, partnership and cooperation models (Yamashita, 2012)—has averted open tensions between itself and ROs, it is not clear whether this bans the potential challenges. There are indications that there is a greater chance of inter-organizational conflict where the UN faces better equipped ROs, such as NATO or the EU for example (Boisson de Chazournes 2017; Cellamare, 2018; Koops and Tardy, 2016).…”

“…While the UNSC has resorted to a pragmatic posture toward ROs andthrough devising hybrid missions, partnership and cooperation models (Yamashita, 2012)has averted open tensions between itself and ROs, it is not clear whether this bans the potential challenges. There are indications that there is a greater chance of inter-organizational conflict where the UN faces better equipped ROs, such as NATO or the EU for example (Boisson de Chazournes 2017; Cellamare, 2018;Koops and Tardy, 2016). Focusing on the organizational interactions between the UN and ROs could complement the existing focus of the peacekeeping literature on the effects of peacekeeping on conflict situations: so far, most of the studies focus on the combined effects of peacekeeping operations on conflicts but rarely differentiate among UN-or non-UN-led missions (but see : Diehl 1993;Sabrow 2016).…”