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Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations: a Survey

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The post-Cold War period has witnessed a proliferation of ‘multilateral peace operations’ — a term that is used here to refer to two crucial notions which have been in wide circulation for decades: peacekeeping and peace enforcement. The former is usually thought to involve deployment and non-coercive activities of multinational personnel authorized by IGOs with the specific purpose of handling violent conflict. The latter can be said to cover coercive multilateral operations ranging from limited-scope sanctions to full-scale collective security action.

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  1. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Eşref Aksu (Research Associate) & Joseph A. Camilleri (Professor of International Relations) (Research Associate) &  (Professor of International Relations)

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Aksu, E. (2002). Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations: a Survey. In: Aksu, E., Camilleri, J.A. (eds) Democratizing Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403907110_13

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