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Contributor Profile: The Netherlands

06 Nov 2012 - 09:44

Contribution to: Adam Smith, Paul Williams and Alex Bellamy, Providing for peacekeeping, International Peace Institute.

This peacekeeping country profile of the Netherlands examines recent trends related to UN and non-UN peacekeeping operations, the country's internal decision-making process on whether to contribute, the rationales driving its contributions, the major barriers to contributing, current challenges, key domestic champions and opponents, major capabilities and caveats, as well as providing a list of further reading. It is part of the Providing for Peacekeeping Project of the International Peace Institute, which also includes country profiles of other countries.