| ID | 189011 |
| Title Proper | Examining UN PKO contributions at multiple levels |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ye, Min |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Most empirical studies on states’ personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) use a state’s annual contributions as the unit of analysis. A critical problem of the state-level analysis is that it ignores the fact that states have to decide how to distribute these peacekeepers among more than a dozen peacekeeping missions. Ignoring the mission-level decision misses a significant part of states’ UN PKO contributions and could bias our empirical analysis. We propose a two-level model that sees a state’s UN PKO contributions as the interactions between the state-level and mission-level factors. This model is employed to revisit the heatedly debated “reimbursement hypothesis”. Our analysis of the empirical data between 1990 and 2018 shows a mixed relationship between states’ economic development and their UN PKO contributions. We also find that middle-income rather than low-income countries are the most critical providers of UN PKOs since the end of the cold war. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 67, No.2-3; Feb-Mar 2023: p.349-374 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol: 67 No 2-3 |
| Key Words | Foreign Policy ; Personnel Contributions ; Level Of Analysis ; UN PKOs |