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27 de Abril de 2018
Joshua A. Geltzer, “When Diplomacy Disappears”, Foreign Policy, Argument April 18th, 2018.
“The Trump Administration’s lack of engagement has made the terrorist threat worse.
When counterterrorism experts insist that effective counterterrorism is about more than just military force, people often don’t take us seriously. Sure, the skeptics say, you might pay lip service to a diplomatic approach, but, really, you mean dropping bombs abroad, perhaps coupled with making arrests at home.
They are wrong. Having spent two years working at the White House National Security Council (NSC), I know that counterterrorism officials are serious when they insist that the smart use of military force is just one of many necessary tools. Right now, the world is witnessing just how important effective diplomacy can be when fighting terrorism — by seeing what happens when such diplomacy is botched. Today, the Trump administration’s inability to continue managing the tensions between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds is providing the Islamic State with the time and space to regroup and pose a resurgent threat to United States and the rest of the world. […]”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/18/when-diplomacy-disappears-counterterrorism-isis-syria-turkey-kurds-ypg-pkk-erdogan-trump/
Paul D. Williams and Thong Nguyen, Neighborhood Dynamics in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1990–2017, International Peace Institute, April 11, 2018.
Abstract
“The last decade has seen more UN peacekeepers than ever before coming from countries neighboring the host state. This report uses the IPI Peacekeeping Database to explore this increase in neighborhood contributions between 1990 and 2017. While less than 3 percent of all UN peacekeepers came from next-door neighbors in the early 1990s, this number had increased to about 20 percent by 2017.
This trend runs counter to a longstanding, if unwritten, principle that UN peacekeeping missions should seek to avoid deployment of troops or police from neighbors in order to mitigate the risks associated with these countries’ national interests in the host countries. It also means there would be significant implications if policymakers wished to reverse this trend, which would put major additional pressure on the UN’s force generation process.”
https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IPI-Rpt_Neighborhood-Dynamics.pdf
Vanguardia de Ideas 27-04-2018
Isabel Adé Portero
Doctora en Historia Contemporánea
Joshua A. Geltzer, “When Diplomacy Disappears”, Foreign Policy, Argument April 18th, 2018.
“The Trump Administration’s lack of engagement has made the terrorist threat worse.
When counterterrorism experts insist that effective counterterrorism is about more than just military force, people often don’t take us seriously. Sure, the skeptics say, you might pay lip service to a diplomatic approach, but, really, you mean dropping bombs abroad, perhaps coupled with making arrests at home.
They are wrong. Having spent two years working at the White House National Security Council (NSC), I know that counterterrorism officials are serious when they insist that the smart use of military force is just one of many necessary tools. Right now, the world is witnessing just how important effective diplomacy can be when fighting terrorism — by seeing what happens when such diplomacy is botched. Today, the Trump administration’s inability to continue managing the tensions between Turkey and the Syrian Kurds is providing the Islamic State with the time and space to regroup and pose a resurgent threat to United States and the rest of the world. […]”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/18/when-diplomacy-disappears-counterterrorism-isis-syria-turkey-kurds-ypg-pkk-erdogan-trump/
Paul D. Williams and Thong Nguyen, Neighborhood Dynamics in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1990–2017, International Peace Institute, April 11, 2018.
Abstract
“The last decade has seen more UN peacekeepers than ever before coming from countries neighboring the host state. This report uses the IPI Peacekeeping Database to explore this increase in neighborhood contributions between 1990 and 2017. While less than 3 percent of all UN peacekeepers came from next-door neighbors in the early 1990s, this number had increased to about 20 percent by 2017.
This trend runs counter to a longstanding, if unwritten, principle that UN peacekeeping missions should seek to avoid deployment of troops or police from neighbors in order to mitigate the risks associated with these countries’ national interests in the host countries. It also means there would be significant implications if policymakers wished to reverse this trend, which would put major additional pressure on the UN’s force generation process.”
i._ade_27_04_2018.pdf
