Power, politics and perception: the impact of foreign policy on civilian-peacekeeper relations
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2017
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Newby, Vanessa
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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This article responds to a recent call for increased empirical evidence on the ‘local turn’ in the peacebuilding literature and discusses the impact of the international on local consent for peace operations. Using fresh empirical material this article examines the case of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). It shows how local perceptions of the foreign policies of peacekeeping contingents matter, and how this affects the functionality of the mission. This article highlights the heterogeneity of both United Nations peacekeeping missions and local populations, an issue that is insufficiently discussed in the literature on local engagement in peacebuilding/peacekeeping
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Peacebuilding, civil society, United Nations, foreign policy, Middle East
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Third World Quarterly
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