2018
DOI: 10.1177/0022343318775784
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Peacekeeping for profit? The scope and limits of ‘mercenary’ UN peacekeeping

Abstract: Developing states furnish the vast majority of UN peacekeeping troops, a fact academics and policymakers often attribute (at least partly) to developing states’ supposed ability to derive a profit from UN peacekeeping reimbursements. In this article, we argue that this ‘peacekeeping for profit’ narrative has been vastly overstated. The conditions for significantly profiting from UN peacekeeping are in fact highly restrictive, even for developing states. We begin by highlighting two potent reasons for re-examin… Show more

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“…Bobrow & Boyer, 1997;Khanna, Sandler & Shimizu, 1998;Gaibulloev et al, 2015). The argument against the supposed profit motive for contributing has been developed and presented convincingly by Coleman (2014) and Coleman & Nyblade (2018), but we will briefly summarize it here.…”
Section: The Costs Of Contributingmentioning
confidence: 94%
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“…Bobrow & Boyer, 1997;Khanna, Sandler & Shimizu, 1998;Gaibulloev et al, 2015). The argument against the supposed profit motive for contributing has been developed and presented convincingly by Coleman (2014) and Coleman & Nyblade (2018), but we will briefly summarize it here.…”
Section: The Costs Of Contributingmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Again, we do not claim that states get no benefit from contributing. Some states likely do benefit at the margins from enhanced international reputations, and the financial gain from personnel reimbursements likely is a motivating factor in some cases (see Coleman & Nyblade, 2018). Rather, we contend that because these benefits are incommensurate with the costs incurred by contributing countries, these factors alone are insufficient to explain how these missions continue to be staffed and deployed.…”
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“…We show how some motivations discussed in the literature on troop contributions (e.g. Gaibulloev, Sandler & Shimizu, 2009;Victor, 2010;Coleman & Nyblade, 2018) also affect how quickly contributions are delivered. At the same time, our study demonstrates that factors that shape the willingness to contribute troops are not identical to those determining how fast those troops are deployed.…”
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