United Nations peace operations in a changing global order / edited by Cedric de Coning, Mateja Peter

UN Peace Operations: Adapting to a New Global Order? / Mateja Peter -- Peacekeeping: Resilience of an Idea / Mateja Peter -- UN Peacekeeping in a Multipolar World Order: Norms, Role Expectations, and Leadership / Adriana Erthal Abdenur -- Politics in the Driving Seat: Good Offices, UN Peace Operations, and Modern Conflict / Adam Day -- People-Centred Approaches to Peace: At Cross Roads Between Geopolitics, Norms, and Practice / Youssef Mahmoud -- What Are the Limits to the Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping? / Mats Berdal -- Protection of Civilians in the United Nations: A Peacekeeping Illusion? / Hilde Frafjord Johnson -- UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism / John Karlsrud -- Peace Operations and Organised Crime: Still Foggy? / Arthur Boiitellis and Stephanie Tieles -- UN Policing: The Security-Trust Challenge / Kari M. Osland -- Africa and UN Peace Operations: Implications for the Future Role of Regional Organisations / Cedric de Coning -- The European Union and UN Peace Operations: What Global-Regional Peace and Security Partnership? / Thierry Tardy -- China Rising and Its Changing Policy on UN Peacekeeping / Yin He -- Religion, Governance, and the Peace-Humanitarian-Development Nexus in South Sudan / Jonathan C. Agensky -- UN Peace Operations and Changes in the Global Order: Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience / Cedric de Coning

This open access volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state actors for greater emphasis on human security. It identifies emerging conflict and peace trends (robustness of responses, rise of non-state threats, cross-state conflicts) and puts them in the context of tectonic shifts in the global order (rise of emerging powers, North-South rebalancing, emergence of regional organisations as providers of peace). The volume stimulates a discussion between practitioners and academics, offering an analysis of how the international community collectively makes sense of the changing global order and its implications for UN peace operations