un and global governance blog post

Tags: UN and Global Governance

Notes

• arguments

  • failures do not grab headlines
    • most people do not know about the success in coutnries
  • peacekeeping cannot be compared to counterinsurgencies
    • peacekeeping requires host nation consent
    • peacekeeping has impartial treatment
    • peacekeeping has limited use of force
  • china’s authoriarian nature at home has cut down on human rights observers
  • republican rhetoric has not matched with budget amounts
  • peacekeeping mandates are illequipped for all conflicts
    • peacekeeping cannot provide military based security guarantees
      • mandates fail to align with the country (congo)
      • haiti was never in a civil war, more of a gang violence position but got a civil war stabilization mandate
      • mali peacekeepings have a specific mandate

• 5 myths

  • peacekeeping is not destined to fail - factual argument
  • peacekeeping is different from counter insurgency - interpretive argument
  • china’s rising position has undercut human rights - normative assertion
  • republicans mention cutting away peacekeeping rhetoric, but increase the budget amounts - casual argument (lack of effect)
  • peacekeeping cannot solve all problems - casual argument

• Post outline

  • talks about 5 myths of peacekeeping, specifically above

  • genre

    • very clear text, straight assertive statements, meant for a non-academic audience
      • more DC audience (for monkey cage, a wapo blog, namechecks sentators but not UN officials)
      • post is organized into small digestable indenpendent chunks, meant so that you don’t have to synthesize this information in totality, you can read a chunk and come back