POL380Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Op-Ed, Arab Spring, Externality
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~deterrence b/c increases costs to violating the peace agreement. ~trip wire b/c always parties to have a warning if the other side is planning. ~breaks reciprocity b/c you have to go through a mediator so increasing the time b/w when something happens and action. Sister theresa and her teeth when 2 parties facing each other but how un actors can prevent something from escalating into violence. Puzzle when peacekeepers are present war appears much more likely to resume. Another war b/w the same states eventually breaks out in over half of the cases where peacekeepers were keeping watch, compared w only 1/5 of the cases where no international personnel were present. War resumes in more then of the cases when they use peacekeepers. So measure the independent impact of peacekeeping ex. want to measure the impact of new drug but experiment on ill people. And they die when you use it but the worst possible locations.
