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The greatest contribution that economics can make to banishing war lies in creating conditions that help keep the peace, especially in the long run. The problem is to identify the set of conditions that will generate positive incentives for nations to keep the peace and work out a set of...
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factors that influence the demand for peacekeeping missions, i.e., conflict situations that invite third-party interventions …, as well as the supply of peacekeeping, the ability and desire of states to intervene elsewhere through peacekeeping … missions. On the demand side, a framework is developed that synthesizes the main obstacles to peacekeeping intervention, in …
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Research on third-party intervention into conflict has accelerated in recent years. Although some studies have explicitly assumed that third parties only value peace, recent theory has modeled parties to a conflict more flexibly. In addition, empirical results provide evidence that third-party...
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While the demand for UN peacekeeping operations increases, the production of these operations remains problematic. The … inherent characteristics of peacekeeping make it difficult to efficiently produce UN peace missions. Importantly, a country …'s participation in a UN peacekeeping operation is based on its national interests for that mission. The system of discretionary …
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The article briefly reports on the funding of Canadian peacekeeping activities and outlines the shift toward … peacekeeping operations in Canadian defense activity and expenditure since 1989. It then analyzes equipment deployed or readied in … deployment possible are substantial and form a major hidden cost of peacekeeping that, in future, needs to be made explicit to …
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either case, to play its optimal role in the future of peacekeeping operations, the U.N. will have to face up to new demands …
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Prospects for Iraq's economy are bleak: unemployment remains high and the post-war rebuilding effort has slowed to a trickle, weighed down by chronic instability. Rising oil prices increased GDP in 2004 and 2005. But an oil-induced rise in GDP will not necessarily bring about a general rise in...
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factors that influence the demand for peacekeeping missions, i.e., conflict situations that invite third-party interventions …, as well as the supply of peacekeeping, the ability and desire of states to intervene elsewhere through peacekeeping … missions. On the demand side, a framework is developed that synthesizes the main obstacles to peacekeeping intervention, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225987
Prospects for Iraq's economy are bleak: unemployment remains high and the post-war rebuilding effort has slowed to a trickle, weighed down by chronic instability. Rising oil prices increased GDP in 2004 and 2005. But an oil-induced rise in GDP will not necessarily bring about a general rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818293
Research on third-party intervention into conflict has accelerated in recent years. Although some studies have explicitly assumed that third parties only value peace, recent theory has modeled parties to a conflict more flexibly. In addition, empirical results provide evidence that third-party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543243