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GPOR Annual Compilation 2015

© Global Peace Operations Review

For almost a decade, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (ARGPO) was the flagship publication of the Center on International Cooperation (CIC). During that time, CIC also released three editions of the Review of Political Missions.

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Jan 29, 2016
Jim Della-Giacoma, Alexandra Novosseloff, Ryan Rappa, Richard Gowan, Alischa Kugel , WPS Sidhu, Sarah Cliffe, Barnett Rubin, James Traub
China, Europe, Middle East, Libya, Syria, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Afghanistan, Crises, Fragile States, Global Governance, United Nations
Peace and Security

Dr Barack versus President Obama

Barack Obama’s foreign policy reflects a moral duality that has befuddled friends and enemies alike

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Mar 14, 2016
WPS Sidhu
Middle East, Libya, Syria, United States
Global Governance, International Security, Transnational Threats

Seven Big Crisis Management Questions for a Disorderly World in 2016

International conflict management is not necessarily a rewarding occupation for people who have neat and orderly minds. Well-made plans tend to fall apart in fast-moving crises. As I noted in a chapter in a book on the Security Council published earlier this year, the recent history of United Nations peace operations is basically a story of “one damn thing after another.” U.N.

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Dec 28, 2015
Richard Gowan
Europe, Middle East, Libya, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa
Peace and Security
Global Governance, International Security, United Nations

Libya to Europe: Please Don’t Come to Our Rescue

Europe is trying to help Libya stem the human trafficking trade that has imperiled the lives of tens of thousands of desperate migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

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May 14, 2015
Richard Gowan
Europe, Middle East, Libya
Peace and Security
Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises

Security Woes Dog U.N.'s Libya Mission

Last October, with security concerns in Libya mounting, the United Nations dispatched a high-level delegation to Tripoli to determine whether U.N. staff could function safely in a country beset by Islamist extremists and renegade militias that had killed America's top envoy, attacked foreign embassies, raided the country's oil resources, and temporarily abducted both the Jordanian ambassador and the former Libyan prime minister.

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May 29, 2014
Richard Gowan
Middle East, Libya
Peace and Security
Crises, Fragile States, United Nations

Turbulence and Opportunity

Turbulence in the Arab world and crisis in North Africa. The Middle East peace process on life support at best. Oil and food prices rising, causing global economic stresses and hardships. Mounting concerns about the sustainability of our growth. In the world’s dominant power, economic doldrums exacerbated by political gridlock; in Europe, policy confusion depressing growth. A competitor power rising, testing America’s weaknesses, probing for vulnerability.

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Jan 09, 2013
Bruce Jones
Middle East, Libya, Syria, United States
Arab Awakening, Fragile States

Understanding the Transition: A Challenge and Opportunity for Mediators

The Arab Spring has reminded us of the importance of properly understanding the tasks, pace and sequencing of the political transition that follows the cessation of conflict or collapse of authoritarian regimes.  Transitions are bridges between old and new political orders, and it is essential that they should be resilient to a wide range of potential challenges.

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Jun 21, 2013
Nicholas Haysom, Sean Kane
Middle East, Libya, Syria
Arab Awakening, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations
Peace and Security

Managing the Benghazi crisis is a tricky business

Like his predecessors, President Obama is relying on a specially-commissioned report and efforts at transparency to control the fallout from Benghazi.

Read the full BBC News article here

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May 18, 2013
Richard Gowan
Middle East, Libya, United States
Peace and Security
Arab Awakening, Crises, Fragile States

Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.

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Mar 04, 2013
Christine Wing, Fiona Simpson
East Asia, Middle East, Libya, South Africa
Global Governance, International Security

At the Security Council, Compromise and Reforms in Short Supply

The United Nations General Assembly met on 18 October to elect five new nonpermanent members of the Security Council. Although the winners will not begin their terms until January, the U.N. is approaching the end of two turbulent years in which three major powers -- Germany, India and South Africa -- have held temporary seats in the council, playing prominent roles in its debates over Libya and Syria.

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Oct 18, 2012
Richard Gowan
Europe, Middle East, Libya, Syria, India
India, United Nations

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