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ID186067
Title ProperTrade potential and UN peacekeeping participation
LanguageENG
AuthorZhang, Shenghao
Summary / Abstract (Note)The determinants of a country's UN peacekeeping troop contribution have been persistently studied. Trade, as a crucial self-interest motivation, is one of the important explanatory variables in the extant literature. However, the existing literature presents mixed results on the influence of trade on peacekeeping troop contributions. To capture the effect of trade on contributions precisely, we need to model expectations about future trade volume in a better way. Countries are pressured by the economic and political risks caused by the trade disruption and lobby groups to send peacekeeping troops to enable future trade or secure future investments. Therefore, trade potential, rather than realized trade, drives peacekeeping troop contributions. A gravity model is used to measure the trade potential between the UN peacekeeping mission countries and contributors, and test its relationship with the UN peacekeeping participation. Based on this measurement and a dyadic troop contribution dataset covering the period from 1990 to 2012, this article demonstrates that the counter-factual predictive trade volume is a relevant predictor of UN peacekeeping troop contributions.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Peacekeeping Vol. 29, No.1; Feb 2022: p.57-84
Journal SourceInternational Peacekeeping Vol: 29 No 1
Key WordsUN Peacekeeping ;  Gravity Model ;  Trade Potential


 
 
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