Providing peacekeepers : the politics, challenges, and future of United Nations peacekeeping contributions

'Providing Peacekeepers' analyses the factors which encourage (or discourage) states from contributing their soldiers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It focuses on the UN's experiences during the 21st century and does so through 4 thematic and 16 case study chapters. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the rising demand for peacekeepers saw the United Nations (UN) operate at a historically unprecedented tempo, with increases in the number and size of missions as well as in the scope and complexity of their mandates. The need to deploy over 120,000 UN peacekeepers and the demands placed upon them in the field have threatened to outstrip the willingness and to some extent capacity of the UN's Member States. This situation raised the questions of why states contribute forces to UN missions and, conversely, what factors inhibit them from doing more? Providing Peacekeepers answers these questions. After summarizing the challenges confronting the UN in its force generation efforts, the book develops a new framework for analyzing UN peacekeeping contributions in light of the evidence presented in sixteen case study chapters which examine the experiences of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Nepal, Uruguay, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Japan. The book concludes by offering recommendations for how the UN might develop new strategies for force generation so as to meet the foreseeable challenges of twenty-first century peacekeeping and improve the quantity and quality of its uniformed peacekeepers. Introduction : the politics and challenges of providing peacekeepers / Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams -- pt. I. Context. Contemporary patterns in peace operations, 2000-2010 / Donald C.F. Daniel -- Token troop contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations / Katharina P. Coleman -- pt. II. The permanent five. United States of America / Adam C. Smith -- The United Kingdom / Paul D. Williams -- France / Thierry Tardy -- The People's Republic of China / Bates Gill and Chin-Hao Huang -- The Russian Federation / Alexander Nikitin -- pt. III. Top contributors (2000-2010). Bangladesh / Rashed Uz Zaman and Niloy R. Biswas -- Pakistan / Inam-ur-Rahman Malik -- India / Dipankar Banerjee -- Nigeria / Adekeye Adebajo -- Ghana / Kwesi Aning and Festus K. Aubyn -- Nepal / Arturo C. Sotomayor -- Uruguay / Arturo C. Sotomayor -- pt. IV. Rising contributors? Brazil / Kai Michael Kenkel -- Turkey / Nil S. Satana -- South Africa / Cedric de Coning and Walter Lotze -- Japan / Katsumi Ishizuka -- pt. V. Conclusions. Explaining the national politics of peacekeeping contributions / Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams -- UN force generation : key lessons and future strategies / Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams. Providing Peacekeepers analyzes the factors which encourage (or discourage) states from contributing their soldiers to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations. It focuses on the UN's experiences during the twenty-first century and does so through four thematic and sixteen case study chapters.