Reinforcing Failure : Understanding the UN's RelentlessPursuit of an Elusive Liberal Peace

强化失败:理解联合国对难以捉摸的自由和平的不懈追求

• 批准号: 2745899
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2745899
• 关键词: Reinforcing; Failure; Understanding; UN; RelentlessPursuit

Since the end of the Cold War, UN peace operations havebeen built on the assumption thatliberal democracies are less likely to go to war with eachother or descend into civil war. The UN's track record withliberal peacebuilding over the years has been decidedlymixed, leading scholars and policy makers alike toconclude that the enterprise is deeply flawed. Yet despitemounting evidence of its limits, serious alternatives to theUN's favored, liberal peace-building approach are yet toemerge.Why is it that the UN constantly pursues the same failedpeacekeeping policies even when the record of success isso poor? My research project tries to address this puzzle byexamining the complex deliberations that determine whattypes of tasks are included in the mandates of UN peaceoperations. Drawing on a detailed case study analysis of the UN'speace operations in Haiti and the Democratic Republic ofthe Congo, this project seeks to test rival theories about thefactors responsible for the repeated inclusion of liberalpeacebuilding tasks in their mandates, regardless ofcircumstances on the ground. In doing so, it seeks toadvance research onthe UN as an international organization by assessing therelative importance of member stateinterests and the UN's organizational culture in explainingwhy tasks firmly rooted in the discourse of liberal peacehave endured, despite repeated setbacks in the field.

自冷战结束以来，联合国和平行动一直建立在一个假设之上，即自由民主国家不太可能相互开战或陷入内战。多年来，联合国在自由和平建设方面的记录好坏参半，导致学者和政策制定者都认为这项事业存在严重缺陷。然而，尽管有越来越多的证据表明联合国的局限性，但联合国所青睐的自由主义和平建设方法的替代方案还没有出现。为什么联合国在成功的记录如此糟糕的情况下仍不断追求同样失败的维和政策？我的研究项目试图通过研究决定联合国和平行动任务中包括哪些类型的任务的复杂审议来解决这个难题。该项目利用对联合国在海地和刚果民主共和国的和平行动的详细案例研究分析，试图检验有关导致其任务中反复包括自由建设和平任务的因素的对立理论，而不管实地情况如何。在这样做的过程中，它试图通过评估成员国利益和联合国组织文化的相对重要性来推进对联合国作为一个国际组织的研究，以解释为什么坚定地植根于自由和平话语的任务尽管在该领域屡遭挫折，但仍然存在。