United Nations (UN) peace operations face an extended and dangerous period of strategic uncertainty. Since the end of the Cold War, global peacekeeping has undergone cycles of expansion and contraction. After a round of boom and bust in the 1990s, UN operations expanded through the last decade, as did those of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU) and other organizations. But a series of set-backs have coincided with military overstretch and the financial crisis, raising the risk that UN peacekeeping may contract once more.
Syria: Interview with Richard Gowan
Worldpress.org Senior Editor Joshua Pringle spoke to Richard Gowan, Associate director at CIC, about the complexity of addressing the Syrian crisis.
Read the full Worldpress.org interview here