For much of this year, Washington analysts have been extremely worried about what to do about the vast numbers of refugees flowing out of Iraq (about 2...
Richard Gowan
Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).
Now that’s what I call peacekeeping
Well, the UN may be down in the dumps about Darfur and the EU might be losing its bottle on Chad, but those NATO guys down in Kosovo don't do fear, even if...
A very hard question
I'll spare readers further extended commentary on the grim outlook for peacekeeping (although, just to add to the fun, it's worth checking out the new piece...
“Cancelling the mission is an option”
Time for an update on the peacekeeping shortage, which gets a lot of well-deserved attention in the current edition of The Economist. Oh that this could have...
The UN tells it like it is (Part II)
It continues to be Brutal Honesty Month from the UN. Since I noted here that Ban Ki-moon and his team had started to tell harsh truths about the dangers of...
The UN: learning to say no?
There seems to be a small revolt in progress at the UN over the ever-growing demand for its peacekeepers. There are currently more than 100,000 of them around...
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