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May

15
2015

1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT

Past Event

Peacekeeping and geopolitics in the 21st century

Friday, May 15, 2015

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium

1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC
20036

"The Fog of Peace A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century" by Jean-Marie GuéhennoFollowing the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, hopes abounded for a peaceful and more stable world with the end of the Cold War. Great-power competition, it seemed, was no longer a threat. Global security efforts were focused on stabilizing smaller conflicts, in part through multinational peacekeeping efforts. Today, the tide seems to changing with the re-emergence of great-power tensions. At the same time, many in the international community are skeptical about the effectiveness of peacekeeping with some engagements now lasting more than a decade—in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan—with no immediate end in sight.

On Friday, May 15, the Project on International Order and Strategy hosted a discussion about the current state of geopolitics and international peacekeeping. The conversation, a part of the Foreign Policy program’s Order from Chaos project, featured Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former United Nations’ undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations. Guéhenno discussed his new memoir “The Fog of Peace: How International Engagement Can Stop the Conflicts of the 21st Century” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). In his role as the U.N.’s lead peacekeeper, Guéhenno oversaw the largest expansion of peacekeeping missions in U.N. history. His insights into peacekeeping, international diplomacy, and great-power relations illuminated some of the challenges we face today, including the crisis in Syria, Russian aggression in Ukraine, and the accommodation of rising powers in a new world order.


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