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A Training Centre For Peacekeepers, Erika Simpson Aug 2015

A Training Centre For Peacekeepers, Erika Simpson

Erika Simpson

No abstract provided.


Cfb Cornwallis: Canada's Peacekeeping Training Centre, Erika Simpson Aug 2015

Cfb Cornwallis: Canada's Peacekeeping Training Centre, Erika Simpson

Erika Simpson

No abstract provided.


Cfb Cornwallis: Canada's Peacekeeping Training Centre : Blueprint 2, Howard Peter Langille, Erika Simpson Aug 2015

Cfb Cornwallis: Canada's Peacekeeping Training Centre : Blueprint 2, Howard Peter Langille, Erika Simpson

Erika Simpson

No abstract provided.


A 1994 Blueprint For A Canadian And Multinational Peacekeeping Training Centre At Cfb Cornwallis, Erika Simpson Aug 2015

A 1994 Blueprint For A Canadian And Multinational Peacekeeping Training Centre At Cfb Cornwallis, Erika Simpson

Erika Simpson

No abstract provided.


New Threats To The Alliance's Security And Strategies To Reform Nato, Erika Simpson Aug 2015

New Threats To The Alliance's Security And Strategies To Reform Nato, Erika Simpson

Erika Simpson

No abstract provided.


The United Nations And War In The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries, Robert Weiner Oct 2012

The United Nations And War In The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries, Robert Weiner

Robert Weiner

The United Nations was created in 1945 to prevent another world war. It was designed, as the Preamble to the Charter states, to eliminate the scourge of war. The failure to agree on a permanent UN international army meant that the UN had to improvise in dealing with wars. Peacekeeping, which is not mentioned anywhere in the UN Charter, had to be invented. This study investigates how peacekeeping has evolved through four “generations,” culminating in Unsanctioned multinational forces consisting of “coalitions of the willing.” The study also stresses how one of the greatest peacekeeping failures of the UN in the …


Rallying The Troops: Collective Action And Self-Interest In Un Peacekeeping Contributions, Timothy Ja Passmore, Megan Shannon, Andrew F. Hart Dec 1995

Rallying The Troops: Collective Action And Self-Interest In Un Peacekeeping Contributions, Timothy Ja Passmore, Megan Shannon, Andrew F. Hart

Andrew Hart

Is the acquisition of personnel for UN peacekeeping missions susceptible to free-riding by UN member states? If so, what drives this behavior and what impact does this have on obtaining required personnel for the mission? Using data from 21 missions in 13 African countries between 1990 and 2010, this article addresses whether UN peacekeeping missions experience a shortfall in personnel due to incentives to free-ride by contributing states. It argues that as the number of states contributing to a mission increases, contributors have a greater incentive to free-ride and make suboptimal personnel contributions, leading to greater overall shortfall in the …