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134785
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The study of peace operations, which has undergone remarkable growth in recent years, has been paying greater attention to the ‘micro-level’ processes and local dimensions of these missions. This is a welcome development. However, the closer one gets to the local specificities of individual peace operations, the easier it may be to lose sight of the broader patterns of these missions, including how they fit into – and are reflections of – international politics writ large. This article contends that there is a continuing need for this type of ‘macro-level’ research, particularly at a moment of shifting power in the international system. It further argues that a research agenda focusing on the ‘geopolitics’ of peace operations would open up at least three interesting and potentially important avenues of macro-level study.
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130857
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2014.
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A major but little talked about oil-related event is that last year Kurdistan launched a pipeline that will run through Turkey. This is a harbinger of big geopolitical change. Over the past few decades, the energy sector has regained its footing - this is a great achievement. In the last ten years, exports of oil doubled in
comparison with the Soviet period. During the same time, oil prices rose nearly five times. Production
increased from 340 million to 520 million tons per year. These are very decent numbers, a good result. Many infrastructure projects were implemented, helping to double exports of oil. Baltic pipeline, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, terminals, gas infrastructure, Nord Stream, the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline - these are all very serious projects, the base for the future. There are new projects launched, and a part of fields put into operation.
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102413
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2011.
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The resolution of the great Cold War power struggle created a wave of optimism that modernisation, free-market globalisation and democratisation would extend the horizons of peace and prosperity across the world. These hopes were dashed by a progression of seemingly disjointed setbacks: economic crises, regional wars based on nationalism and ethnicity, and global crime and terrorism. Yet these varied challenges stem from common roots. The United States and its partners created a global political economy defined by the norms, institutions and power structures of 'bounded capitalism', providing the steadying influence of social-welfare policies in order to win societal support for building a regime of liberal international economic interaction. The structure of this world system is changing as the status quo powers face relative decline and new players enter the field, demanding adjustments. As developed and developing states deal differently with the problems of market development and welfare provision, the norms and precepts of the system are also in flux. Any attempt to deal with coming challenges must address the deeper social and economic transformations at work, rather than focusing piecemeal on their symptoms.
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