The Erosion of Sovereignty During the UN Peacekeeping Missions
The Erosion of Sovereignty During the UN Peacekeeping Missions

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the phenomenon of peacekeeping in the contemporary world during the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Based on the analysis of fifty-six completed UN operations, the authors describe types of missions and build an empirical typology. Attention is paid to the impact of globalization on the sovereignty of modern states, and their ability to exercise a monopoly of power. The problems and the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions, the political and legal aspects of global interventions into local sovereignty, the role of the (neo)liberal global order in (re)producing legitimacy for such interventions are discussed. An empirical analysis of the discourse of UN peacekeeping missions leads to identifying five main types of missions. Their nature is joint with various socio–political manifestations of erosion of local sovereignty and different types of normativity. The article points out the ambiguity and dependence of the processes under study on multiple interests and actors in the context of globalization.

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