Japan has been a prominent supporter of a U.S. initiative to encourage participation in peacekeeping operations, but to date, Tokyo’s follow-up has been constructive but limited. For Tokyo and its allies, ensuring that the UN can handle today’s ugly crises is an unavoidable task.
This policy brief explores “politically governed authority," or real influence, constrained in form and scope by the preferences of the member states that constitute the institution. It proceeds through selection, function, capacity, and reform and uses the framework established in United Nations resolution 79/327, operative paragraph 49, to organize the implications of this design across four dimensions: efficiency, accountability, transparency, and institutional memory.
This policy brief aims to provide policymakers and members of the public with an understanding of the M23 movement’s internal dynamics, structure, and objectives, as well as its evolution over recent years.
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