Ukraine Conflict: Is UN peacekeeping an option?
- Major General AK (Dr) Bardalai, Retired
- 07:19 AM,06 Jan 24
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Peace building and public administration: a framework for assessing the role of UN peacekeepingREAD MOREThis article aims to connect peacekeeping practices with public administration. Public administration is about creating and imple menting public values, i.e., principles that aim to bring justice and to produce legitimate, useful government policies for all people involved.
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Board of Peace: Threat to the UN and Multilateralism?READ MOREWhen President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met on board HMS Prince of Wales on 14 August 1941 to create an alternative to the League, it was based on Western Supremacy. France was not interested, and China was not in the picture.
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Trump gets royal welcome in Japan, China trade truce hopes riseREAD MOREWestern supremacy, using its grip on power and economic leverage, was at the heart of the world order created soon after the end of World War I. China is just doing that and not choosing any side. One cannot take sides in international relations. A balanced piece that answers many unanswered questions about China.
Published on www.reuters.com
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Dragons and Elephants : Has India defeated the American Eagle?
When Trump's 50% tariffs shattered India's American dream, Modi boarded a plane to Beijing, his first in seven years. In Tianjin's grand halls, the ghost of Nehru's idealism met Xi Jinping's calculated pragmatism, as history's cruelest irony unfolded.
On August 30, 2025, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aircraft descended toward Tianjin's red-carpeted runway, three of the world's most potent symbols converged in geopolitical theatre. The elephant of India, wounded by the eagle's unexpected talons, was seeking shelter under the dragon's ancient wings. Seven decades after the Panchsheel Agreement promised a new dawn of Asian cooperation, the same cast of civilizations found themselves in a dance choreographed not by wisdom, but by Washington's betrayal.
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The Gaza war continues,
and the world is still waiting nervously for what might happen if the truce between Iran and Israel fails. It would be good for those who are distressed by the events in Gaza and the Middle East to know that the US was the main architect of the new world order that would soon be celebrating its eight decades of existence.
The world order dreamt by US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill was meant to be without another war, respecting state sovereignty based on international laws, the Peace of Westphalian (1648), and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (proposed by US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Prime Minister Aristide Briand in 1927).
This article unpacks the current world of disorder and dives into the historical facts, beginning with the League and continuing until now. The one who created the idea of peace is now at war to destroy it. But all is not gone yet. Collective consensus can still resuscitate what was dreamt.
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China on the Move: Energy, Investment, and Strategic Levers between Moscow, the BRICS, and the Middle East.READ MOREChina on the Move: Energy, Investment, and Strategic Levers between Moscow, the BRICS, and the Middle East. In 2024, the People's Republic of China consolidated its robust energy position by purchasing approximately 108.5 million tons of crude oil from the Russian Federation-an annual record that translated into approximately 2.17 million barrels per day.
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Taking UN Peace Operations to the Next Level: Strategic Revitalization and Reinforcement of UN Military and Civilian ObserversContributing authors : Annika Hilding Norberg, Brig. Gen. Marcel Amstutz, Maj. Gen. (R.), Dr A. K. Bardalai, Lt. Gen. (R.) Robert Mood, and William Phillips Published on Marsmil.com
06:00PM, 25 May 2025READ MOREThe world is in turmoil. As a strategic response to the rapidly deteriorating trajectory in international peace and security and how it is impacting UN peace operations,
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Protection of Civilians in Peace OperationsREAD MOREFor a quarter of a century, the Protection of Civilians (POC) has been a defining feature of United Nations (UN) peace operations.
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Local Politics and Perspectives in UN Peace OperationsContributing authors : Professor Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading), Maj. Gen. (Dr.) A.K. Bardalai, (United Service Institution of India), Maj. Gen. P.K. Goswami (United Service Institution of India), Dr. Jenna Russo (International Peace Institute), Col. (Dr.) K.K. Sharma (United Service Institution of India) Published on Marsmil.com
06:00PM, 25 May 2025READ MOREIn 2022-24, there were violent protests against the UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MONUSCO,
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