| ID | 142040 |
| Title Proper | Personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping missions |
| Other Title Information | a public goods approach |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sandler, Todd ; Shimizu, Hirofumi ; Gaibulloev, Khusrav ; George, Justin |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Based on spatial panel regressions for 1990–2012, this article draws publicness differences between peacekeeping personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping operations. The analysis shows that UN missions are much less responsive to personnel spillovers, derived from other contributors’ peacekeepers, than is the case of non-UN missions. UN peacekeeping missions display either no response or free riding to these personnel spillovers, while non-UN missions indicate spillover complementarity. Moreover, a number of controls distinguish the two kinds of peacekeeping, where non-UN missions display income normality and UN missions’ deployments increase with the number of concurrent peacekeeping missions. The latter suggests that some countries specialize in supplying UN peacekeepers as a money-making venture. The positive response to the population variable supports this conjecture for UN missions, because a greater population base provides the recruits for peacekeeping operations. Our spatial empirical analysis accounts for the endogeneity of peacekeeper spillovers. The article concludes with a host of robustness tests that account for the alternative classes of peacekeepers, African Union and ECOWAS missions, and other empirical variants. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Peace Research Vol. 52, No.6; Nov 2015: p.727-742 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Peace Research Vol: 52 No 6 |
| Key Words | Endogeneity ; Joint Product Model ; Personnel Contributions ; Spatial Panel Regressions ; Un and Non-Un Peacekeeping |