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un and global governance blog post

Tags: UN and Global Governance

Notes

  • arguments

    • failures do not grab headlines
      • most people do not know about the success in coutnries
    • peacekeeping cannot be compared to counterinsurgencies
      • peacekeeping requires host nation consent
      • peacekeeping has impartial treatment
      • peacekeeping has limited use of force
    • china’s authoriarian nature at home has cut down on human rights observers
    • republican rhetoric has not matched with budget amounts
    • peacekeeping mandates are illequipped for all conflicts
      • peacekeeping cannot provide military based security guarantees
        • mandates fail to align with the country (congo)
        • haiti was never in a civil war, more of a gang violence position but got a civil war stabilization mandate
        • mali peacekeepings have a specific mandate
  • 5 myths

    • peacekeeping is not destined to fail - factual argument
    • peacekeeping is different from counter insurgency - interpretive argument
    • china’s rising position has undercut human rights - normative assertion
    • republicans mention cutting away peacekeeping rhetoric, but increase the budget amounts - casual argument (lack of effect)
    • peacekeeping cannot solve all problems - casual argument
  • Post outline

    • talks about 5 myths of peacekeeping, specifically above

    • genre

      • very clear text, straight assertive statements, meant for a non-academic audience
        • more DC audience (for monkey cage, a wapo blog, namechecks sentators but not UN officials)
        • post is organized into small digestable indenpendent chunks, meant so that you don’t have to synthesize this information in totality, you can read a chunk and come back