Doing Well by Doing Good? Strategic Competition and United Nations Peacekeeping

Authors

Bryce Loidolt, Center for Strategic Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies

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Description

The Joseph Biden administration’s Interim Strategic Guidance emphasizes the importance of ensuring that international organizations “continue to reflect the universal values, aspirations, and norms that have underpinned the UN [United Nations] system since its founding 75 years ago, rather than an authoritarian agenda.”1 In this context, several trends in competitor contributions to UN peacekeeping operations could be cause for alarm and warrant greater U.S. engagement. Although Washington remains the largest billpayer for these missions, both Russian and Chinese personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping have surpassed those of the United States. Chinese financial contributions are slowly increasing and, unlike the United States, are paid on time, in full, and without conditions. China is also the largest troop contributor to peacekeeping missions among the Permanent 5 members of the UN Security Council.

Publication Date

9-2021

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Loidolt, Bryce, "Doing Well by Doing Good? Strategic Competition and United Nations Peacekeeping" (2021). INSS Strategic Perspectives. 5.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/inss-strategic-perspectives/5