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Doing Less With More? The Difficult ‘Return’ of Western Troop Contributing Countries to United Nations Peacekeeping

Among others, the deployment of the UN stabilization mission to Mali (MINUSMA) in 2013 has been characterized by a number of researchers as a ‘return’ of Western troop contributors to United Nations (UN) peacekeeping in Africa. The aim of this report is to look at the reality of that ‘return,’ and whether it has enhanced the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping overall and of the UN mission in Mali in particular. In policy and academic circles, the return has been hailed as an opportunity for Western member states to contribute niche capabilities such as ISRs including surveillance drones, military transport and attack helicopters, special forces, and to share experiences and practices developed over a long period of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism warfare in e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq. In Mali, the UN mission is mired in a situation where these experiences were considered as relevant, all the more so as some considered that new UN peacekeeping missions could be deployed to Libya, Somalia, Syria, or in Yemen, thereby making Mali a key testing ground for the future from this perspective. However, while Western countries may indeed have lessons to share, the report argues that so far their contribution to MINUSMA has been a very mixed blessing. The report explores these challenges and impact of them on the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping, defined as the ability to sustain peace over time.

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
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Alexei Miller

Russia and Europe in memory wars

Russia and Europe are in a state of memory war. How did this come about? Is there a way out of this situation? In order to answer these questions, this report enquires into the dynamics of memory politics in Europe, and then takes a closer look at Russian memory politics.

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Russia and Eurasia
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New research
Articles
New research

The PREVEX project officially launched in Brussels

Why are some communities more likely to experience violent extremism than others? 

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
News
News

The Consortium for research on terrorism and international crime in 2019

Prison radicalization, returning foreign fighters and accelerationist terrorism were just some of the topics on the Consortium’s agenda during the last twelve months.

  • Terrorism and extremism
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Working paper

The WTO Reference Paper meets EU common regulatory policy in CETA

International trade and investment in telecommunications are governed by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and its Annex and Reference Paper (RP) on telecommunications. This paper discusses whether the 25-year old WTO framework is still fit for purpose. It makes two contributions to the literature. First, it offers a systematic comparison between the provisions in the RP, the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and EU common regulatory framework. GATS builds on an outdated classification of telecommunications which is repeated in the CETA. The RP obliges countries to regulate interconnection, which is also largely repeated in CETA, although regulatory forbearance is permitted. CETA does not offer new market access in telecommunications to either party. Second, the paper investigates empirically whether binding regulation in trade agreements strengthen market openness, measured by imports of telecommunications services, and finds that it does not. The paper concludes that trade agreements may not be suitable for international cooperation on telecommunications regulation. Trade agreements run the risk of making regulation hostage to unrelated trade policy issues while adopting the RP runs a risk of legal obligations to over-regulate telecommunications.

  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Globalisation
  • International organizations
  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Globalisation
  • International organizations
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Can trade preferences stimulate sectoral development? The case of Namibian and Botswanan beef exports to Norway

• While market access quotas have generated high levels of rents for traders and exporters in Namibia, Botswana, Norway, and offshore entities in the UK, their developmental benefits are diffuse, unclear, and difficult to unpack; • The consolidation of trade between small supply (Namibia, Botswana) and demand markets (Norway) provides some unique advantages for trading parties, given the former’s efficiency and scale disadvantages in international trade, and the latter’s desire to actively manage its food imports; • However, such a strategy is not necessarily replicable or scalable, as it entails both high entry costs for access and high risks from the over-reliance on a limited number of markets and the specter of animal disease incursions.

  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Trade
  • International investments
  • Development policy
  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Trade
  • International investments
  • Development policy
Event
09:30 - 11:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
09:30 - 11:00
NUPI
Engelsk
5. Feb 2020
Event
09:30 - 11:00
NUPI
Engelsk

The EU’s role in a more instable world – towards a shared Grand Strategy?

The opinions on which role the EU should play in international politics differ. How will 2020 turn out for the Union, and what role will it pursue in the future?

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Analysis
Articles
Analysis

Free trade agreements increasingly important for Norway

The EEA Agreement is Norway’s most significant free trade agreement by far. However, free trade agreements with other countries are becoming increasingly important, notes NUPI Senior Research Fellow Hege Medin.

  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Trade
  • International investments
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News
Articles
News

PODCAST: – Putin has no magic mind control powers

By blaming Vladimir Putin for everything that we dislike in the West, we will fail to address the real issues, according to Mark Galeotti, author of the book We Need to Talk About Putin.

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Nationalism
Alessio  Iocchi

Alessio Iocchi

Former employee

Alessio Iocchi was a Senior Research Fellow in NUPI's Research group on peace, conflict and development. 

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Migration
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Migration
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
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