Introduction
Peace operations and peacebuilding are about policies and state and non-state actors that get involved in these policies. As a military alliance established to deter and defend against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is not intuitively associated with the notions of peace operations and peacebuilding.
With the end of the Cold War though, NATO embraced a broad crisis management agenda that led the organization to run what it calls peace support operations, from the Balkans to Afghanistan and even Libya. Those missions have shed light on the Organization’s nature, combining a mix of a “liberal peace” aspiration with a more traditional Realpolitik agenda. Although NATO would not easily refer to those missions as being about peacebuilding, what peace support operations are supposed to do is largely about creating the security conditions for peace to be built.
In this context, the 2014 Russian aggression in Ukraine led NATO to...
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Tardy, T. (2020). NATO’s Approach to Peace Operations and Peacebuilding. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_4-1
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