The Future of Peacekeeping: What Role for the UN?

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Multilateral peacekeeping has been challenged by the emergence of new threats to international security in the post-Cold War era, including ethnic cleansing and failed states. At the same time, the principles and shared interests that sustained multilateral action during the Cold War have come under pressure. Leading participants in multilateral peacekeeping, notably the U.S. and other Western powers, have been slow to adapt to these changed conditions, calling the future of multilateral peacekeeping into question. Drawing on his newly published USIP volume, Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of U.S. Primacy , author Jean-Marc Coicaud will open a discussion on these issues, joined by specialists on the UN and international peacekeeping.

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Speakers

• Jean Marc Coicaud
  Author of Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism, Head of the United Nations University (UNU) office at UN headquarters in New York
• Ruth Wedgwood
  Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and the Director of the International Law and Organizations Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
• Thomas Grant
  Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace, and fellow of Wolfson College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University
• Virginia Bouvier, Moderator
  Senior Program Officer, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program, U.S. Institute of Peace

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