South America and Peace Operations: Coming of Age

ISBN-13: 9780415663267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 244 str.

Kai Michael Kenkel

Opis

This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations.

The region of South America has been undergoing significant changes recently with regard to its attitudes towards participation in peace operations, a phenomenon that has brought with it an increase in interest in, and production on, the region. Leaving behind a strong reluctance with regard to intervention the offshoot of suspicions grounded in historical US interference in the Western Hemisphere the states have recently taken on a much stronger presence among UN blue helmets. The foremost showcase of this more robust and responsible stance has been MINUSTAH, the current UN mission in Haiti. South American contributors provide over half the operation s troops, and the Force Commander is provided by Brazil.
As South American states continue to rise in importance as contributors to peace operations an indicator of larger shifts in the distribution of global power understanding their traditions and motivations is of ever greater importance to the community of international relations scholars and practitioners. This book is intended as an introduction for researchers to the nexus of issues surrounding this region s increasing clout as a provider of blue helmets. The idea is to provide the reader with a historically and theoretical grounded understanding of what motivates defence policy and decisions on intervention in the region, coupled with a series of case studies and the strongest, most diverse bibliography possible in its area, designed in order to facilitate avenues of future research by its readers. The volume joins together seven substantive contributions wedding practical applicability with diversity of analysis. Contributions giving the analytical underpinnings for the study of the South American context of intervention are placed at the beginning, and gradually overlap with case studies of specific troop contributing countries from the region.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, South American politics, peace and conflict studies, security studies and International Relations in general.

Spis treści

Introduction: Diversity Within a Common Culture: South America and Peace Operations, KAI MICHAEL KENKEL  1. Assumptions on Intervention and Security in South America, MONICA HERZ  2. Democratization and Commitment to Peace: South America’s Motivations to Contribute to Peace Operations, ARTURO C. SOTOMAYOR VELÁZQUEZ  3. Regional Defense Integration and Peacekeeping Cooperation in the Southern Cone, DANILO MARCONDES DE SOUZA NETO  4. Out of South America to the Globe: Brazil’s Growing Stake in Peace Operations, KAI MICHAEL KENKEL  5. Punching Above its Weight: Uruguay and UN Peace Operations, JULIÁN GONZÁLEZ GUYER  6. From Fear to Humanitarianism: Changing Patterns in Argentina’s Involvement in Peace Operations, RUT DIAMINT  7. Learning to be Likeminded: Chile’s Involvement in Global Security and Peace Operations Since the End of the Cold War, ANDREAS E. FELDMANN AND JUAN ESTEBAN MONTES  8. Swimming Against the Tide: Venezuela and Peace Operations, JULIA D. BUXTON  Conclusions: Securing South America’s Peace Operations Acquis Post-MINUSTAH, KAI MICHAEL KENKEL

O autorze

Kai Michael Kenkel is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations (IRI) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.