1st Edition

European Approaches to United Nations Peacekeeping Towards a stronger Re-engagement?

Edited By Joachim A. Koops, Giulia Tercovich Copyright 2018
    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    226 Pages
    by Routledge

    This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of European approaches to United Nations peacekeeping by assessing past practice, present obstacles and future potentials related to nine core European countries’ contributions to blue helmet operations. By providing in-depth case studies on Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, this book offers an evaluation of European approaches as well as a wide range of facilitating and constraining factors related to the above mentioned countries’ future involvement in UN peacekeeping. The book places particular emphasis on the recent involvement of European countries in the UN operation in Mali (MINUSMA) and explores to what extent this experience might lead to further marked increases of European supplies of troops and capabilities and thus a broader ‘European return’ to UN peacekeeping. Each chapter offers an up-to-date case study on key countries’ policies, challenges and opportunities for a stronger re-engagement in UN Peacekeeping It provides a comprehensive analysis of the main challenges and concrete ways ahead for overcoming institutional, political, financial and military obstacles (both at European capitals and within the UN system) on the path towards a stronger re-engagement of European troop contributing countries in the field of UN Peacekeeping. Furthermore, each chapter includes a set of policy-relevant recommendations for future ways ahead. The chapters in this book were originally published in International Peacekeeping.

    Introduction: A European return to United Nations peacekeeping? Opportunities, challenges and ways ahead Joachim A. Koops and Giulia Tercovich France: the unlikely return to UN peacekeeping Thierry Tardy The United Kingdom and United Nations peace operations David Curran and Paul D. Williams Germany and United Nations peacekeeping: the cautiously evolving contributor Joachim A. Koops Italy and UN peacekeeping: constant transformation Giulia Tercovich A Dutch return to UN peacekeeping? Niels van Willigen Europe’s return to UN peacekeeping? Opportunities, challenges and ways ahead – Ireland Ray Murphy Denmark and UN peacekeeping: glorious past, dim future Peter Viggo Jakobsen Sweden and the UN: a rekindled partnership for peacekeeping? Claes Nilsson and Kristina Zetterlund Between self-interest and solidarity: Norway’s return to UN peacekeeping? John Karlsrud and Kari M. Osland

    Biography

    Joachim A. Koops is Dean of Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Research Professor for European Foreign and Security Policy at the VUB’s Institute for European Studies as well as Founding Director of the Global Governance Institute (GGI).



    Giulia Tercovich is Erasmus Mundus Fellow at GEM PhD School in Globalization, the EU and Multilateralism at the University of Warwick (UK) and the Universiteì Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). She is also Senior Analyst in the Peace and Security Section at the Global Governance Institute (GGI).