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Non-Economic Drivers of China’s Peacekeeping Operations in Africa

... Yet, the motivation by Beijing to commit troops and resources towards peacekeeping in Africa has significant importance beyond the economic aspects. Indeed, several studies have highlighted the economic benefits for countries committing soldiers to UN peacekeeping missions. However, the benefits of China’s involvement transcend the potential revenues gained from troop deployment. This article adopts the rational choice theory to argue that policymakers in Beijing are able to derive several benefits ...

17.01.2020

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Keeping Peace in Africa in the 21st Century

... meant that the African Union would have its own ready-for-deployment peacekeeping force through the African Standby Force (ASF). But as of 2017, the ASF is yet to become fully operational. Because the AU’s peacekeeping capacity is still nascent, the brunt of peacekeeping activities on the continent continues to fall on the UN, which often finds itself in uncharted waters. The UN has to deal with new formats of peace operations, such as the first hybrid UN-AU mission in Darfur, as well as with a slew of unprecedented ...

17.03.2017

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