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Between self-interest and solidarity:

Norway’s return to UN peacekeeping?
John Karlsrud  & Kari M. Osland
Pages 784-803 | Published online: 23 Sep 2016

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ABSTRACT

Norway has been a rm supporter of, and contributor to, UN peacekeeping operations.
However, while increasing its nancial support since the end of the Cold War, Norway has
signi cantly downscaled its troop contributions to the UN, focusing on NATO operations.
Rather than interpreting this as lessened interest in the UN, we point out that support and
commitment cannot be measured solely in numbers of troops deployed. Norway’s
commitment to UN peacekeeping should be understood as part of its strategic culture,
here read as a synthesis between self-interest and solidarity, and between the UN and
NATO. This article details the institutional, political and material challenges and
opportunities for renewed engagement in UN peacekeeping.

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Notes on contributors

Dr John Karlsrud is Senior Research Fellow and Manager of the Training for Peace programme at
the Norwegian Institute of International A airs (NUPI), and External Associate at the Centre for the
Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, where he also earned his
PhD. John has published widely on peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian issues. He was
a Fulbright Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU and a Visiting Fellow at the
International Peace Institute. He has worked in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Chad and Palestine (West
Bank), and conducted eld research and shorter missions to Haiti, Liberia, Mozambique, Serbia,
Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Ukraine.

Dr Kari M. Osland heads the Peace and Con ict Research Group (PCRG) at the Norwegian Institute
of International A airs (NUPI). Her main elds of specialization are security sector reform,
peacebuilding and statebuilding, war crimes, political analysis of the Balkans and the changing
character of war. In her PhD dissertation (University of Oslo) she examined the degree of positive
change by comparing international police intervention in ve post-con ict countries over ve
years. She has served as co-editor of the Scandinavian journal Internasjonal Politikk, and conducted
extensive eldwork in Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, South Sudan, Sudan,
FYR Macedonia and Montenegro.

ORCiD

John Karlsrud http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8409-1098

Kari M. Osland http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2733-1574

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