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The US cannot be expected to shoulder the post-conflict burdens of peacekeeping alone.
In 1995, a NATO peacekeeping force was sent to the troubled area, but when NATO intervened militarily in Kosovo in 1999, Russia backed Serbia’s objections to secession, and Kosovo has still not been admitted to the UN.
The liberal vision also includes a major Japanese role in stabilizing globalization by supporting international trade and monetary institutions; alleviating global poverty by increasing overseas development assistance, particularly to Africa; helping to develop instruments for conflict prevention and management such as the United Nations Peace-building Commission; and participating in UN peacekeeping operations.
The draft order also targets the International Criminal Court, to which the US currently provides no funding, and peacekeeping operations, including operations in southern Lebanon that protect the northern border of Israel, which Trump seems keen to help.
The international community can offer stability and improvements in living conditions for both Israelis and Palestinians by intervening now with a peacekeeping and humanitarian presence, endorsed by the United Nations and with the support of the United States.
While this does not necessarily imply a military role for Europe in Asia (although participation in peacekeeping missions should not be excluded), it does mean a more forceful diplomatic posture in support of mediation and multilateralism.
Indeed, unlike Kosovo, where we have no serious interests and should withdraw from the peacekeeping efforts, Russia stands both to gain and lose a lot in Iraq.
As a result, China has become the third-largest contributor to the UN’s regular budget, and the second-largest contributor to its peacekeeping budget.
China has even pledged thousands of personnel to UN peacekeeping operations, indicating a commitment to global security.
It has already floated the idea of a limited United Nations peacekeeping operation there.
In the Balkans, bombing was carried out mainly by the US; peacekeeping mainly by Europeans.
There are, of course, local reasons why the Europeans set a high priority on peacekeeping and reconstruction in the Balkans.
Karzai's Crisis of LegitimacyReading the press of late, you might conclude that all Harmid Karzai, Afghanistan's chief, needs to pacify his country is an expanded international peacekeeping presence and faster delivery of aid.
When Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense, announced this, it represented a reversal of America's earlier position, which favored confining the peacekeeping forces to Kabul lest they get in the way of US operations against Al Qaeda and Taliban diehards.
It fails to recognize that neither expanded peacekeeping nor efficiently delivered aid will achieve their desired ends until the Afghan public accepts the Karzai government as fairly representing its interests.
Now that the international peacekeeping force is to operate nationally, Marshall Fahim must be told to lift his stranglehold on Kabul.
First, the US should take the lead in helping to develop and maintain international laws and institutions to organize collective action to deal with not only trade and the environment, but also weapons proliferation, peacekeeping, human rights, and other concerns.
As with Rwanda in 1994, the international community was united in its condemnation of the Balkan violence, but was unable to agree on effective joint action until late in the conflict, in 1995, when a NATO peacekeeping force was sent to the troubled area.
It has participated in United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Mali, prolonged its engagement in Afghanistan, supplied weapons and training to forces in northern Iraq, and provided reconnaissance flights and other assistance to French military strikes against the Islamic State in Syria.
The Flawed Options in DarfurThe long-sought joint peacekeeping force for Darfur, which would combine the existing 7,000-man African Union force with as many as 20,000 additional military personnel and civilian police under UN command, has now been approved.
According to Jean-Marie Guehenno, the head of UN peacekeeping operations, any hybrid force must be “robust” because of the “very challenging” situation in Darfur.
The Bush administration has been a leading advocate of deploying a robust peacekeeping operation in Darfur.
But the United States is impeding this process by falling far behind in its obligatory payments to the UN peacekeeping budget, with total US arrears estimated at more than $500 million – and possibly exceeding $1 billion by the end of 2007.
Many African leaders insist that they should retain principal control of any peacekeeping force in Darfur.
Many Western governments, however, refuse to place their forces under AU command, owing to its perceived weaknesses, and have conditioned further support for peacekeeping operations in Darfur on the UN’s assuming control.
A major peacekeeping operation in Darfur would likely produce a similar situation: protracted uncertainties regarding the region’s future political status, impeded socioeconomic development, persistently diverging expectations among the conflicting parties, unresolved tensions resulting from non-fulfillment of these expectations, and the likelihood of renewed violence should the foreign intervention force withdraw.
He said that he had instructions - from the Executive Mansion in Monrovia - to send a message to Nigeria, the leading troop contributor and financier of the regional peacekeeping force, ECOMOG.
It should be remembered that, after the US, Japan is the largest contributor to the United Nations, and to its peacekeeping budget.
Yet its constitution severely constrains its ability to send combat units for the Security Council’s peacekeeping operations.
Finally, there is the problem of limited resources for international peacekeeping operations in Africa – always with disastrous results.
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