Working Paper : Sending International Peace Operations in Africa : Experience of the Netherlands in MINUSMA
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2020

From 2014 to 2019 The Netherlands deployed troops to the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). It was the first large participation in a UN peacekeeping operation since 2000-2001. This paper discusses the Dutch participation in MINUSMA as part of a more general European return to UN peacekeeping. It is argued that the underwhelming results of MINUSMA, the existence of competing security challenges, and capability constraints form serious obstacles to a new substant