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2011.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has progressively adapted itself
to the new strategic environment. This has meant a shift from a defensive
posture to a more proactive risk management strategy. A key
component of this mandate is contributions to international peacemaking
and peacebuilding operations. In both the Balkans and Afghanistan, NATO
has worked to utilize its military assets to create and maintain peace so
that civilian organizations can administer aid, development programs, and
good governance projects. These multifaceted operations, however, are
complex and rely on well-structured relationships between the different
civilian-led international organizations on the ground and NATO. Sadly, as
the case of Afghanistan illustrates, these organizations have proved woefully
inadequate in terms of providing sustainable peacebuilding. The hypothesis
is that international organizations do not play well on the ground
in conflict or postconflict environments because they were meant to manage
a balance of power, rather than an absence of power. These organizations
are more worried about their bureaucratic turf than they are
sustainable outcomes.
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102347
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2011.
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Energy constitutes a rich, but underexplored, arena for global governance
scholars and policymakers. The world is currently on an unsustainable and
conflict-prone track of volatile and unreliable supply of energy fuels, vulnerable
infrastructure, massive environmental degradation, and failure to
deliver energy services to an enormous proportion of the global population.
Changing to a different path will be a monumental global governance
endeavor that will require bridging multiple issue areas, regimes,
and policy silos. Meeting that challenge will require a greatly expanded research
agenda aimed at understanding the institutions, interests, and concerns
that do and could shape global energy governance. In this article, we
lay out key energy-related global issues and explore some of the connections
among them to suggest an initial research agenda for global governance
scholars.
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102351
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2011.
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In this article, I examine the challenges associated with the cooperation
between NATO and nongovernmental organizations in peacebuilding operations.
I argue that those challenges need to be understood as part of
a process of contestation and competition over the redefinition of the
"rules of the game" in the changing domain of peacebuilding. This
process of contestation, I suggest, can significantly undermine NATO's
ability to contribute to sustainable peacebuilding in war-torn countries.
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102344
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102343
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102348
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2011.
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This piece introduces the concept of sustainable peacebuilding and briefly
examines the growing involvement of NATO in peacebuilding operations.
It also previews the empirical articles in this special section, explaining how
they advance our understanding of the challenges faced by NATO in its
peacebuilding efforts.
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102350
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2011.
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Our assumption in this article is that sustainable peace operations require
the involvement of organizations and institutions that are themselves sustainable.
We begin by presenting a set of propositions regarding the sustainability
of international institutions in which the capacity for
adaptation and incremental change are centrally important. We then examine
these propositions in relation to NATO, paying particular attention
to the ways in which the alliance has taken on both new roles and new
members. A central concern of the article is the ways in which NATO member
states' conceptions of identity and definitions of national interest affect
the sustainability of the alliance, and limit the ability of alliance
members to generate the longer-term commitment needed for peace support
operations.
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102345
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2011.
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While most UN peace operations have become large and multidimensional,
UN support to postwar Nepal, the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN),
was authorized as a "focused mission of limited duration." Its lightness
notwithstanding, the mission made a significant contribution by monitoring
the cantonment process, assisting with the elections, and being an active
watchdog of implementation as stipulated in the 2006 peace
agreement. The case study casts doubt on the assumption that international
assistance to peacebuilding can compensate for lack of local capacity.
Nepal did not meet conventional criteria for "local capacity" for
postwar peacebuilding (as, e.g., used by Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas
Sambanis 2006), but a more prominent international role would likely
have been counterproductive by courting Nepalese nationalist reactions
and Indian opposition. A mission carefully calibrated to take account of
these concerns helped keep the peace process on track.
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