What are the obstacles to the production of actionable military intelligence in peacekeeping missions?

Diplôme Master d'études avancées What are the obstacles to the production of actionable military intelligence in peacekeeping missions? eng 2019-04-29 author Begert Ruben 917021 director Martin Siobhan 668664 director Hilding Norberg Annika 55 <p>This paper aims to identify the most important challenges preventing the production of actionable military intelligence to the peacekeeping commanders. Researching beyond the usual mediatized suspects such as the "lack of assets", it argues that peacekeeping missions, their troops contributing countries and their sections and sub-units behave in conformity with the rational choice institutionalism theory (RCI), both in maximizing their own preference such as preserving their individual secrecy, as well as in negligence and policy shifting. In practice, it notably translates into distrust among partners which are expected to cooperate. When conducting a case study of three different UN missions (MONUSCO, UNMISS and MINUSMA) to test the thesis main arguments, the present work furthermore provides evidence that institutional and personal integration constitutes a decisive mitigating factor to the adverse behaviors such as the lack the trust, expected by RCI theory. Integration, the paper concludes, plays a key role in the successful production of actionable intelligence in cooperative environments such as the peacekeeping missions as it mitigates the lack of trust among partners.</p> Dewey 320 International and European Security 24 Global Studies Institute 0DJ false f29ad61a-19ad-4884-9fd2-6e11c5d72f12 Master thesis Public 20190428RubenBegertMASDissertationF.pdf 290612 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Global Studies Institute

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