A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers
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in: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Jahrgang 17, Nr. 5, 2023, S. 557-576.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - A Key Success Factor
T2 - Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers
AU - Minatti, Wolfgang
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Legitimacy has become a widespread term within policy documents of international organizations, not least international peacekeeping. But legitimacy is also a contested concept, so it matters greatly how it is understood on the ground. In this article, I ask what meanings the UN Department of Peace Operations attributes to the concept of legitimacy. Using a qualitative content analysis to study policy and training documents published by the department, I argue that the department understands the local legitimacy of UN peacekeeping missions as a (mis-)perception of its international legitimacy and underappreciates how other actors might undermine UN and state legitimacy.
AB - Legitimacy has become a widespread term within policy documents of international organizations, not least international peacekeeping. But legitimacy is also a contested concept, so it matters greatly how it is understood on the ground. In this article, I ask what meanings the UN Department of Peace Operations attributes to the concept of legitimacy. Using a qualitative content analysis to study policy and training documents published by the department, I argue that the department understands the local legitimacy of UN peacekeeping missions as a (mis-)perception of its international legitimacy and underappreciates how other actors might undermine UN and state legitimacy.
KW - Department of Peace Operations
KW - international organizations
KW - Legitimation
KW - peacekeeping
KW - relationality
KW - United Nations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174409105&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17502977.2023.2256110
DO - 10.1080/17502977.2023.2256110
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85174409105
VL - 17
SP - 557
EP - 576
JO - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
JF - Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
SN - 1750-2977
IS - 5
ER -